Lost Connection
Missing Connection Kids spend an average of seven hours a day at school, equally 35 hours a week and that is calculated to an astounding 1,330 hours a year in the classroom. Despite a large part of waking hours dedicated to studies, it is difficult to see the relationship that school knowledge has to our daily life and how it really prepares us for the later years. Mission.org published an article explaining how schools fail in preparing young adults for the real world. It mentions that even beyond the high school age concern is the fact that “30% of college graduates don’t feel college prepared them for the world of work.” When Coates was in school, he too felt unprepared for the world and had to teach himself critical skills that were not explained in class. “To survive the neighborhoods and shield my body, I learned another language consisting of a basic complement of head nods and handshakes. I recall learning these laws clearer than I recall learning my colors and shapes,