Education and The value of a degree

      I honestly feel like a degree means different things for different people. If you were born rich you don't need a degree because you already have wealth. if you come from a family that hardly sees a college degree its not about money it's about pride. These days if you aren't born rich you have to work hard to get wealth. These days you need a degree to dig a ditch or to bust a hole in a wall. You need a degree for everything unless you are rich. It helps you not only earn more money but it helps you it helps you to just get a decent job. I think that when you start to talk about how having a degree helps with your social status I don't think having a degree is going to be a huge factor in it. My dad didn't go college but he starting his own massage therapy business.My dad has been a massage therapist fro over 10 years and he doesn't have a degree. He has friends that went to college and became doctors and he has friends who aren't doing anything with their lives. It depends on the persona and the people they choose to be around.

   As far as the US and the education system I think a lot of work needs to be done. I think we have become a dumb society we lowered the standards for students. There are schools that don't truly care about the students desires after high school. I think more schools need to take time to figure out what their students want. I don't care if the graduating class is 100 or 500 there should be some type of help offered to any student. There shouldn't be students saying they can't go to college because they don't have the money, because in today's society that is not true. I think that we are at a c- in the public school systems when it comes to opportunities. It isn't that we don't have them but no one is telling students about them or making it a big deal. Not every school is even giving opportunities, there are schools that don't have programs to prepare students for a future career and the schools with the programs don't always oversee or keep up with the programs. There are many schools with tremendous opportunities and they are becoming full with students who come in from schools that lacked the opportunities so it causes the schools with plenty of opportunities to sacrifice somethings. But this wouldn't be a problem if all the school did what they were supposed to do.