This is in response to an article that appeared in the Sun Journal Aug. 2 with the headline “High schools take steps to ensure grads are prepared.” Nothing will make a high school student prepared for the future except his or her own desire.

I am a grandfather of 13. Of those, nine graduated from high school and four dropped out. Four of the high school graduates started college but dropped out. One high school graduate is a four-year college graduate, and one is a graduate of the two-year community college system.

Government intervention did not help prepare any of them for the future. Desire was there for two of them. The other 11? You decide.

I dropped out of high school in 1943 because my desire was to enter the military during World War II. I have no regrets.

Roland O. Carville, Lisbon