My intention of going to school and how to minimize a "drop out effect " by Mayrhofer Kristina

Details: Created on Tuesday, 31 May 2016 15:09; Written by austria

Essay written by Mayrhofer Kristina

A higher percentage of young adults (31%) without a high school diploma live in poverty, compared to the 24% of young people who finished high school. This fact speaks volumes. It makes rather clear, why education is important for everyone, even for me, a 17 year old student from Austria.

My name is Kristina and I am in junior year, in a gymnasium in Upper – Austria, at the border to Germany. And education is really significant to me.

My intention of going to school is to gain my aims. I don’t want to be bound to someone else. Especially not to a man, who has a higher salary than I have. Even nowadays it is hard to be independent and to have a raised standard of living as a woman. But hard does not mean impossible, therefore achieving what I seek might need a lot of hard work. The base of that, is a high education.

With a university degree, the salary you get, when you start to work, is much higher than the salary a person with a high school diploma gets. However, that is just one advantage of having a high education. So my intention of going to school is to be prosperous one day. Going to school and getting a high education helps me acquiring what I want. But not everyone has the same intention of going to school as I have.

A lot of Austrian students start with a gymnasium, HTL or HAK, but a high percentage of these students quit after one or two years. In my opinion, an underestimated main reason, why they quit, is the way lessons are arranged. It is very troublesome to stay interested, if a lesson is so boring that you have difficulties not to fall asleep.

Another reason is, for instance, the school atmosphere. Perhaps the drop out effect would decrease, if the community feeling were better. For example in Denmark, some schools throw a party each month to improve the community feeling of their students. I thing that encourages the feeling of belonging, so it would help some people to feel safer and more comfortable in their class or their school.

Another very simple way to minimize the drop out effect is to show the students what a high education is good for. Showing good examples and reasons, why it is worth learning and staying in school. For example, to show them the life of a person with a high education and a good job compared to one without all that.

To sum up, there are many teenagers with a commendable intention of going to school and who take school and education seriously. But not everyone is like that, so it is important to alter some things in our education system, so that perhaps they change their way of thinking about school.

We should do that, not only to improve our education system and change some mindsets about school, but also to minimize the drop out effect.