Pre-Adulting by Jaden

Pre-Adulting by Jaden - February 2022 Scholarship Essay

With this being my senior year, the stress coming from graduating has been piling up. Not only do I have to worry for my grades, I also have to worry about the most important thing happening in the near future, actually being an adult. Many students at my age don’t even know how to drive, fix appliances in their house. We raise kids so highly on the idea of focusing on school during their youth, that they never had any time to actually mature. So, a new elective class I would propose would be an elective class that involves learning basic necessities in being an adult. With being thrown into adult life as soon as you graduate high school, with most graduates immediately going into the workforce or college, it is hard for students to emigrate into this new life.

These elective classes would teach topics such as Home Economics. Although home economics is already a class, there is a small percentage of schools that actually offer that class. Home economics would help students how to do basic necessities around their house, fix appliances, install things into the house, and other specific things like setting up the router. As technology advances, the school system has practically stayed the same, locking kids in this state where they pretty much only have knowledge on random facts rather than actual useful information.

This class would also teach an important subject for every adult, Finances. Our society can’t run without money, and students' only real connection to money is the chips that they buy at the local convenience store. If this ‘Pre-Adult’ Elective offered learning about finances, we would be more natural when our parents bring up that conversation. We would know how to file taxes, open a bank account, request a loan, deposit money, etc.

To conclude, the introduction of a ‘Pre-Adulting’ CLass would benefit the students better in comparison to many other electives. This would help the students not only feel less nervous when they approach graduation, but they’d already know how to do the things many adults learned at a later age. This would create a generation of young adults, people who know how to do things that took adults years to learn, also comprised into a little span of 8 months.