hment is theonly thing that has put us where we are right now. That is something that is important toknow because our connections to the past and our understandings of them are what moveus to the future without tripping over our tails. This is not to mention the old addage thatthose who are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it. That is the epitome ofbacktracking. Progress will not occur if we dont know from where we are progressing. Schools do not acquaint students with the enormous amount of careers on thisplanet. Of course, there are nearly as many in this country, but economies and societiesare starting to become more and more global. Schools do not give students informationregarding careers. There are career centers at some large schools, but these are out oftouch and ineffective on many levels. They do not reach out to students in the least andthey do not make themselves accessible. Another reason these do not really work is tiedcompletely into the first problem discussed above. There are plenty of students who feelthe choices and oppotunities possible for some students are in no way available to them(Ehrlich 63).In hand with these problems with the system, there are problems that must besolved from the outside. The first of these problems is blame. When there is a problem,Americans take a funny approach to solving it. We find out what the problem is then wewant to assign blame to someone or something, then we want to punish that person as away of fixing the problem. We want to villify someone for something that isnt working(Sarason 33) rather than simply checking that attempt off the list as unsuccessful andmoving on to the next. The villain approach gets us nowhere. All it does is identify theproblem then eradicate the person making the mistake. That doesnt do anyone any good.To make the change, we must be of and part of not only the community, but theschool system. A person that runs a corporation, for ...
