The typical American’s life consists of going to school, getting an education, finding a job, starting a family and living the “dream.” However, more and more people are straying away from this idea and becoming lazy.

Five out of every 100 students enrolled in high school do not complete the year.

The 3.8 million young adults who were not enrolled in high school or had not completed high school accounted for 10.9 percent of the 34.6 million 16 through 24 year olds in the United States.

Not only are dropout rates ridiculous, the students actually enrolled in school seem to have the idea that it does not matter what they learn. The media has seemed to provide students with the idea that they can do nothing in school, not further their education and then still have opportunities for wonderful jobs that will give them loads of money. We are not taking education seriously at all.

Mrs. Arnold, freshman physical science teacher, commented on how some of her students would take tests and leave multiple choice questions blank, turn in blank sheets of paper on essay questions and when given study guides of the test, they would still have failing averages.

Well, students of Lee County, this kind of attitude is not going to get you into a good college anymore. Colleges in Georgia such as the University of Georgia, Emory and Georgia Tech are no longer accepting ‘B’ students and it is almost impossible to get into a decent college without advanced placement (AP) classes. Every grade matters and college is approaching faster than we think. More and more businesses are requiring workers to have a high school diploma. So what happens when we cannot get into college because we do not care about our grades? We cannot get a job because we do not have our high school diploma.

Of course I am guilty of not doing my best in school and slacking off just as much as the next person. However, when it comes down to it,