Teachers and leaders of American Society need to stop telling our kids to go to College!

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I don't think there's anything wrong with telling a teenager to go to college, but the entire education curriculum needs to be more serious. I remember when I was going to college how everyone was telling me it was going to be so much more difficult than high school and what not, but when I got there it honestly wasn't that much different. The only real difference I noticed is that when the teachers assigned homework, they meant it was homework. I do agree that there should be some kind of practical teaching in the Junior and Senior year of high school and probably in the beginning college years. It is a shame that most young adults do not understand where the electricity comes from whenever a light switch is flipped (I used to be one of them). A fair number of my college peers don't even know how to turn a wrench.

Getting back to the education of America though, I remember reading that in Germany to graduate from college you have to take a final at the end of your four years consisting of all the material since enrollment. Here in the U.S., only about half the teachers give a final at the end of the term. However, it is not entirely the curriculum's fault. The American youth has become extremely lazy. Whenever an assignment is due, many of my peers beg the teacher to extend the date of the assignment, even if it is complete. Most barely try the problem, then they say it is too hard and have the teacher do half of the work on the board. The reason why this happens, in my opinion, is because the students do not value the opportunity that has been given to them. They don't realize each class is worth $55 or so because they are not the ones paying. My parents told me that they will only pay part of my payments while I am in school, and nothing when I graduate, so I am trying to make the most of it. There's my two cents worth.