Generations of students have gone through high school with a well-established notion of how their educational paths would lead.
Learn the essentials reading, writing, arithmetic prepare for college, and if theyve kept up their grades, avoided disciplinary issues, or had other life events, earn a diploma four years later.
The times, they are a changin.
Melissa Stiffler, guidance counselor at Iola High School, offers a jolting statistic for those who assume most high-schoolers are preparing for college. Of the 360 students enrolled at IHS, 41 took the American College Test (ACT).