‘People between 20 and 34 are taking longer to finish their educations, establish themselves in careers, marry, have children and become financially independent, said Frank F. Furstenberg, who leads the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood, a team of scholars who have been studying this transformation.’(Cohen,2010)

Being adults means you finish your education, get a job and live on your own. Usually, getting married and having kids are expected to be an adult. Now with society changing, people get their first job at their late 20s or 30s after finishing the education and thus independence becomes later.

However, when people spend more time getting education and delayed their time to work, some people are having the second view about education. Unlike in the past, nowadays, going to college and successfully graduating do not guarantee good jobs or even jobs anymore. This profoundly influences how students view education and plays an important role when they decide whether they should go to college. Some people cope with the crisis by furthering their education, while some people choose to work after graduating from high school. In China, some high school students no longer put all the effort on study since they will go to vocational schools instead of colleges. For them, receiving higher education do not mean better jobs and better jobs. They can get into the vocational schools with quite low scores. After graduate, they can be qualified technical workers, get jobs easily and earn money maybe more than a college graduates earn. So what the point of studying hard is?

Those students do not care about study, and they pose a threat to the society. They have bad attendance, they fight outside of school, gang together and pick up a lot of bad habits. They are ruining their lives and endangering people around them. Those are the students high school teachers are dealing with.  So I am thinking what we can do to encourage them to study and be a better person.

Cohen, P. (2010, June 11). The long road to adulthood is growing even longer. The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/us/13generations.html