Children Choosing their Path

     
In my opinion there should be more research that helps children to choose their career path. Once children get to high school many of them have dropped out. Many times the reasons are schools being to general or the fact that many have families to care for at a young age. There are vocational and GED schools to help them get an education to prepare for life. However, the high school diploma should be made with the same criteria. For example I had a cousin that dropped out high school at the age of 16 she took her GED and was taking college courses by the time she was 17. When asked why she stated she was tired of High School and the structure. If we start children exploring early and gear them toward the path of choosing a future occupation they may be more acceptable to becoming a high school graduate.

"90 million females in India are non-literate But 20 per cent of children aged 6 to14 are still not in school and millions of women remain non-literate despite the spurt in female literacy in the 1990s" (UNICEF, 2001, p.1). India has more girls that drop out of school than boys. most of this has to with class and gender issues that arise from the caste. There is also child labor that still exists in many parts of the country. So the education of children are affected especially for girls.

Work Cited: UNICEF. (2001). Education. retrieved from http://www.unicef.org/india/children