Persuasive Essay About Gap Year

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Highschool students in their last year have lots of choice to continued their career. Not only direct education to college but also several choices like taking gap year, find a job, try to start business and something else. In most countries took gap year become pop culture among young people. Taken the Gap Year by students before attendence at college is not new phenomenon but attracted lots of media which created impression rocked the world like fashion or powerful trend.
These are some reasons among students in high school why they want take Gap Year after graduated from high school rather than direct to enter college. First, it’s like a fashion, every students in high school was taking one so why not to choose gap year. Second, many students feeling fed up because twelve years they spend in school just sitting in classroom in that monotone atmosphere made them felt burned out. Third, Gap Year can be the longest holiday for students, just live their life and enjoy every moment they passed. Nevertheless, take Gap year can be your most valuable experience ever.
Taking Gap Year abroad to another country was be culture of young people in some countries. Especially in well developed countries like in United Kingdom …show more content…

What students need is not all about score, GPA, certificate but they also need life skills. According to Hodge and Danish (1999), life skills is the ability that are required for individuals to manage with challenges of everyday life. Life skills has an important role for preparing youth for the future (World health organization, 1999). Dannish and Forneris (2008) says life skills can increase individual competence. So, students did taking a gap year indirectly has higher competence rather than

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