I say shit can the senior project at highschools.*. Instead make seniors get a job at a fast food joint near the school for the first half of the school year. Maybe make it half a day. Then the second half of the school year make them attend a new home ec. class that uses their paystubs from the job to show them how to make a budget, pay taxes, in addition to how to cook some simplistic meals and change a tire and your car’s oil. I feel like that would cut down on the level of unearned entitlement some people have.

*In the area I graduated in, senior students would have to do a set amount of volunteer hours as well as present a paper on the experience and what they would do to make the world a better place.