McMillan Reading Response

Jason to me seemed to have been wronged by the technical college coaches. He was trying to further his education and instead was met with further roadblocks to his quest for knowledge. But was it a quest for knowledge? I think it was a quest not for knowledge but for money. Jason wanted to make more money for his family someday, and the easiest way, potentially the only way to do that, it by getting a degree. The reading elaborated on how most jobs in today’s economy want a secondary education for their employees. This to me encourages the gap between the lower and upper class and depletes the existence of the middle class. The economy in our parents time created a greater middle class, lessening the gap. In a way, we are going backwards, and undoing this work by making education financially inaccessible to those born without lots of money. Thus, money is required for getting a good job, not education. Technical colleges like this one pretend to be interested in helping Jason, but are just furthering their own economy. This scares me for the economy that we will pass along to our children someday. Soon, it feels like all jobs will require more and more education until not having secondary education is obsolete.