The True Transition: A Handbook On Secondary Education

By Matthew K Markee

This book is a tool for students in high school students, recent graduates, or anyone looking to pursue a college degree from the lens of a college student. This eBook is a useful guide for finding and applying for grants and scholarships. it also discusses the pros and cons of attending junior college after high school versus immediately attend

• Language: English
• Publisher: Matthew Markee
• Release date: May 14, 2023
• ISBN: 9781088097120

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Background

When in High School, there unfortunately are things we as students must suffer through. Mostly all the outside pressures from those near and far, coinciding from the pressure to succeed from within. High school is very much like a can of tuna in the sense that you are compacted and put into boxes and packaged up for the world to eat you like the sorry fish you are. High School primes you and teaches you the social norms as best as they can, but as you have aged the progression becomes nothing like the movies and more like the books you wish you would have read. When you are going into your junior year of high school, the big topic for most students is, what is your major in college going to be. Before you have even reached your senior year of  high school, it has already been placed to you subconsciously that you should choose to go to college from your advisors. 

What became apparent to me in my years is that the schools very obviously want you to go to school because it makes them look better if there is a higher percentage of children who went on to pursue secondary education (college or trade school). There are a large percentage of students who change their major in college… but why? 

The reasons are not so cut and dry as you’d think but here are some reasonings:

Familial Pressure to succeed

Unwillingness to seek out strengths and eliminate weakness

The lack of research into majors

Familial Pressure To Succeed: 

You can go ahead and raise your hand if your family sends you to school with the hopes of being a doctor or a lawyer. Unfortunately we tend to look outward into our mirror rather than taking a step backward and realizing that we need to make ourselves happy before "we help a brother out." What is so apparent is that when you’re choosing a major in college if you decide to go is that you need to be so