Problems and Struggles

Many people say that middle school is the hardest stage in growing up, however I disagree because I believe that high school is the most difficult stage of becoming an adult. It is the stage in which students are treated like children but expected to act like adults. Where students are not allowed to decide what classes they want to take but are expected to know exactly what they want to do with the rest of their lives. High school is the stage that does not transition students into adults but instead merely pushes them into the real world. From all the people that I have spoken to that have already graduated from high school, particularly from an area of minorities, claim that they were robbed of an education. Those that moved on to college believe that they were not adequately prepared for the work load, or the intensity of the classes. The others that followed another path and are now working regret being uninformed about their choices following their graduation. The biggest problem here is that high school students in areas of minorities often feel too heavily the pressure of having to know exactly what they will be doing after high school is over and are simply not informed enough.