Margaret Miller The Privileges Of The Parents Essay
A Fight for a No Caste System, a Fight for the American Way of Life
In “The Privileges of the Parents”, Margaret Miller says, “With their sense of entitlement, more highly educated parents are more likely to fight for their children in school, and they know what privileges to fight for”. In my experience, with one parent who graduated college and one who did not, this is true. My father, who graduated from college, could easily assist us with our homework and always pushed us in school, whereas my mother, who was very caring, didn’t always give the extra drive we really needed.
We, as a society, now have to make choices and decisions in our everyday life that others used to make for us. Everything from choosing health insurance, making reservations, and it is up to us to put money away for retirement. We also have to quickly acquire new skills, jobs are moving and changing at rapid rates, …show more content…
Not only should you consider it for your future but for your children’s. Having a degree doesn’t guarantee high salary and better jobs, but the possibilities are endless. The NELS goes on to say that parental education only plays one role in student enrollment in college, “family income, educational expectations, academic preparation, parental involvement, and peer influence also independently affected graduates’ likelihood of enrolling in a 4-year institution”.
Higher education is more valuable now than ever. With our economic downturn, having a college degree can be the difference of whether or not you can provide your family’s needs now and forever. What we must do as parents, students, and society is teach our children to do as we do not do as we say by setting the right example, the numbers don’t lie. It has to be a community effort, personal effort, and entire effort of the nation. We have to make going to post secondary schooling a priority to our future generations, by making it a priority to
In “The Privileges of the Parents”, Margaret Miller says, “With their sense of entitlement, more highly educated parents are more likely to fight for their children in school, and they know what privileges to fight for”. In my experience, with one parent who graduated college and one who did not, this is true. My father, who graduated from college, could easily assist us with our homework and always pushed us in school, whereas my mother, who was very caring, didn’t always give the extra drive we really needed.
We, as a society, now have to make choices and decisions in our everyday life that others used to make for us. Everything from choosing health insurance, making reservations, and it is up to us to put money away for retirement. We also have to quickly acquire new skills, jobs are moving and changing at rapid rates, …show more content…
Not only should you consider it for your future but for your children’s. Having a degree doesn’t guarantee high salary and better jobs, but the possibilities are endless. The NELS goes on to say that parental education only plays one role in student enrollment in college, “family income, educational expectations, academic preparation, parental involvement, and peer influence also independently affected graduates’ likelihood of enrolling in a 4-year institution”.
Higher education is more valuable now than ever. With our economic downturn, having a college degree can be the difference of whether or not you can provide your family’s needs now and forever. What we must do as parents, students, and society is teach our children to do as we do not do as we say by setting the right example, the numbers don’t lie. It has to be a community effort, personal effort, and entire effort of the nation. We have to make going to post secondary schooling a priority to our future generations, by making it a priority to