WHY BUSINESS EDUCATION IS KEY TO OUR FUTURE

Are you scared of the future? I personally don’t know what’s going to happen when I start working. We’re going to head off into the business world pretty soon after we graduate, and the education we’re getting isn’t really setting us up for success.

Here at GA, we take a wide range of “core” classes: English, history, mathematics, science, and a foreign language, supplemented with physical education and the arts. Through these classes, we learn how to develop skills and passions in particular subjects. But where do we learn how to apply it to the workforce? 

When we enter the workforce, business becomes essential to our success. It’s all about making others value you and your contributions. If you’re great at English but can’t build up your brand, how can you make a living? You can’t just sit there, write, and hope that someone stumbles upon your work someday.

When we enter the workforce, business becomes essential to our success. It’s all about making others value you and your contributions.

I want to emphasize that by no means does money measure happiness. It is very important that we follow our passions and do what we love. However, finding success from our passions is something we must do in the context of the world of business, and so it is imperative that we learn how to do this

Currently, at GA, the classes offered that can fall under the “business” category would be Honors Economics and Entrepreneurship. That’s it. Furthermore, Honors Economics is only a half-year course and many students have not even heard of the Entrepreneurship class.

However, it’s not only GA that lacks opportunities to learn about business. The norm for high school business curriculum has traditionally been, “Send them off to college and hope they pick it up along the way.” Yet for other subjects, we are provided a solid groundwork to base our future studies on. Biology majors go into college having taken biology. Engineers have taken physics. History majors have taken a variety of history classes to learn about and develop an interest in their field.

Nevertheless, none of those things are  business, the umbrella that ultimately governs all of those majors after college. And our schools aren’t doing anything about it.

I’m calling on the school to seek other courses and opportunities for us. The Co-op learning programs and current courses offered are a good foundation, but we can do more. We need more classes in the field of business. We need to help our students learn about the world they will soon step foot into.

We are a college prep school. But we need to be a future prep school: regardless of what career path we go down, the future includes business.