Schools should help kids find best path

Starting from a young age, teachers push toward testing and college. Those two things are and always will be, unless changed, our only real focus through our entire life as students. Whatever happened to “what do you want to be when you grow up?” Now it seems that the only thing that matters is, “What college are you going to attend?” or “How much money do you want to make?”

Schools should be supportive and be trying to find what is best for each kid. Life requires money, but that’s not what living is. No one was born on this Earth with the sole purpose of making money.

We are supposed to live and be happy but unfortunately shackles have been placed on our ankles and we are forced to march in the direction we are told is best for us.

Between parent and teacher pressure, students are placed in a tiny cage and told that the only way out is to go to college and make lots of money. What if that is not what they want?

School needs to be about pushing us kids toward what we want for ourselves. They should be focusing on helping a student be successful and happy with their lives. Instead of calling a kid failure if they do not pass all of their classes, perhaps try to push them down a road they actually want to travel.

HEATHER DuMARS

Sandpoint