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Grade 9 students in the Collective Voice program at Aden Bowman Collegiate share their lives and opinions through columns. Selected columns run each Monday in The Saskatoon StarPhoenix.

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Today’s schooling teaches students basics and good work ethic skills, but does it help us get ready for the “real world?”

School is definitely real and in the world, but does it truly prepare us for later life? Some might say school is teaching us about a world that does not exist. In jobs outside of school there are rarely separate “topics” like math, history or science; these subjects are integrated in real life situations outside of school. For instance, instead of being taught in science class that electrical current is measured in amps, students could be taught a realistic situation where this knowledge could actually be applied. With the current schooling system, students only really learn these things once they experience them outside of desks and brick walls.