Trade School or College? The Many Benefits of Encouraging Children to Choose Their Own Educational Path

Trade School or College? The Many Benefits of Encouraging Children to Choose Their Own Educational Path
@Saturnogae for American Essence
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It was the third day of kindergarten. My son jumped into the car and announced, “I’m not going to school anymore. I’m going to be a truck driver!” I looked at my wife and then my son and simply said, “You’ve got a long way to go until you can do that; I think we will stay in school a little while longer.”

Fast forward to today. Yes, my son stayed in school and is currently finishing his senior year. He has done rather well and has grown into a wonderful young man, but his path is turning out to be very different from what I thought it would be, and it is one of the things that changed a very deep and incorrect preconception that society had instilled in me from my youth.