The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

In America today, school education is a big part of our lifestyle. In order to get any decent job you must obtain a high school diploma. If you want to take the next step you obtain a college degree. By getting a degree you can hopefully get a higher quality job. In order to survive in America, you need a good job. Without education in America, we wouldn't have any of these new advances that our country runs on. Today we have brought life experiences into our school learning. The twenty first century has introduced a new lifestyle based on technology. This new age has changed since the time of Huckleberry Finn. If education hadn't existed back then, how would we have the advanced education that we do today? Our country today runs on education.

Education has changed since the time of Huckleberry Finn. At Nokomis Regional High we have the Dexter program. This program allows students to get out of the classroom and prepare for the world they are about to enter. You can choose to study health occupations, welding, law enforcement and other programs. During these programs the students are treated like employees. They have a uniform or dress code that they are expected to wear. When students are at Dexter, it's like they are in the real world with a real job. This is a way of teaching students about the possible field they may enter before they get to college and out in the real world. Students today are being prepared at a much higher extent than in the past. With this program at school most students grab the opportunity. By allowing life experiences into school learning, most students enjoy this program and learn from it. Opportunities like this are offered to students across the nation.

Foreign Exchange students are students that travel from different countries to attend a different school. While these students are in the new country, they live with families and are trying to learn that new lifestyle. By going to school for a year in a new country, these students are trying to pick up the language and lifestyle. These students don't just want a vacation, they are driven students preparing for their future. Education today has reached a point where students have the ability to travel the world to learn and prepare for their future. Education today is really all about preparing students for the future and will go to great lengths to allow that.

A new program has been introduced to Nokomis Regional High called career pathways. This new program is suppose to teach students about the careers in the world and get us thinking about our future. It requires students to job shadow within the field they have chosen their freshmen year. In their Junior year, students will then be asked to complete an internship. This is a mandatory class that is suppose to teach students about working and about the possible fields there are. This new program has been introduced to other schools across the nation. Schools are trying to educate it's students about the real life after high school.

Schools across the nation are constantly trying to inform its students about life after high school, the jobs that are available and further education. By introducing these new programs at schools, students are thinking about their future much earlier. Education today is about informing and preparing it's students about the future. With programs like these, the students are able to explore different fields and think about what interests them. Real life experiences are added to a way of learning that students can enjoy. Today we have an education built on both school learning and life experiences. Times have changed since Huckleberry Finn. Schools are more advanced and are no longer optional. Everyone in entitled to an education in order to excel in the future.