My mother was of the opinion that boys are not mature enough to start college right out of high school. My mother refused to provide my brothers with a college education after high school and pretty much forced them into the military. Which of course they did do. My older and next younger to me brother went straight to Vietnam. My youngest brother fortunately had stayed on a career path my mother chose for mom at age 5, he went to West Point. Vietnam was over by the time he graduated.
Basically my mother was pretty much a jerk to force her sons to go into the military knowing they were going straight into that war that had a lot of casualties for death, physical injuries, toxic chemicals as well as PTSD. Including knowing from news reports that there was lot of exposure to drugs including addictive ones and alcoholism plus the habits of being with prostitutes. .But our home had always been a war zone and the military was better than that or getting kicked out onto the street with no job skills that would have provided a decent roof over their heads.
The actual truth is that many young men are capable of going to college right out of high school while others need a break before they go. For the kids who hold down a job as well as get good grades in high school they are most certainly mature enough to go on to college.
There is no one right path through life for everyone and parents do not always know best because some parents are pretty messed up themselves. Certainly not all families can afford to send children to college. Military service is an honorable and worthwhile profession but it is not a good path for every person to enter. For instance, bullying is very present in it and that is something that can destroy a person or even start a person onto the path of becoming one.
There is no easy answer or right answer to this situation. But at the end of high school years a man pretty much knows which direction he wants to go even if it is following the path of least resistance from parental pressures.
Basically my mother was pretty much a jerk to force her sons to go into the military knowing they were going straight into that war that had a lot of casualties for death, physical injuries, toxic chemicals as well as PTSD. Including knowing from news reports that there was lot of exposure to drugs including addictive ones and alcoholism plus the habits of being with prostitutes. .But our home had always been a war zone and the military was better than that or getting kicked out onto the street with no job skills that would have provided a decent roof over their heads.
The actual truth is that many young men are capable of going to college right out of high school while others need a break before they go. For the kids who hold down a job as well as get good grades in high school they are most certainly mature enough to go on to college.
There is no one right path through life for everyone and parents do not always know best because some parents are pretty messed up themselves. Certainly not all families can afford to send children to college. Military service is an honorable and worthwhile profession but it is not a good path for every person to enter. For instance, bullying is very present in it and that is something that can destroy a person or even start a person onto the path of becoming one.
There is no easy answer or right answer to this situation. But at the end of high school years a man pretty much knows which direction he wants to go even if it is following the path of least resistance from parental pressures.
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several 100 degree days there this week.
