Just think about this for a second: how many times have you parallel parked since you took your driver’s test?

How many times will you need to find log₅18 when log₅3=.6326 and log₅2=.4307 WITHOUT a calculator after you graduate from high school?

Nowadays, the requirements for graduating have grown so large, it is almost impossible to take any classes that pertain to what you aspire to be after high school.

In order to graduate, you must have 22 required credits to graduate, when students, on average, graduate with 24 total credits. That only gives each student two credits for whatever they want to do.

If a student wants to become a second-grade teacher, is it fair to make her take two years of a foreign language? Or if a student aspires to be a journalist, should she have to take more than a basic math class?

When it comes down to it, you can go through life without knowing geometry, trigonometry, French, Spanish, or chemistry. But those are just a few classes, out of many, that do not prepare you for the real world.

What happened to the classes that matter? The ones that can help prepare one for the real world: home economics, wood shop, sexual education.

Taking away students’ freedom to choose the classes they want to take, does not actually prepare them for the real world, it only prepares them for the college world.

But what about the students who do not plan on attending college?

The education system fails to acknowledge the fact that not all students will be attending college after high school. College is not the only path you can take after high school.

For the students who will be going into the military or will go straight into a career after high school, “Hamlet” may not be the most helpful thing they have read over the years.

What students could really benefit from is an education system that, instead of preaching that college is the only option, teaches how to be prepared for the real world, like how to take out a loan or how to plan and stick to a strict budget.

College bound or not, there are many things that each student at KHS will need to learn to do, and some assistance would be very helpful.