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It Is A Good Idea To Raise School -leaving Age To 18 By Law.
Do you think it's a good idea or not, please cast your vote and specify the reason, thanks
 uberlovely  08 Feb 2008 12:50
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I don't think you should be able to make the choice to leave school until you are an adult at 18. I know many kids that don't like high school at all but at my school you can take college classes and those kids love the college classes. In high school we cover the basics so everyone gets what they need in college you get to take classes you are interested in. At 16 yrs old I don't think you understand the fact that college might be a fun/good thing.
 
 LME  05 Jun 2008 21:57
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Literacy or primary education is essential for everyone. Within the age of 18 we get this primary education. Primary has no distinction in subjects. In this period we are generally taught all subjects to grow our concept of every subject. Education has a familiarity with earning livelihood, but primary education is like under ground construction of a building. It always provides us basic support whenever we face problem. But it is very sorry to say that yet we find drop out of students from schools. The main problem in these students is in sufficiency of money. Searching for food led them out of education. It might be our failure that we do not present importance of education before them. Firstly we have to bring back their faith on education which provides them better position, and then we have to make primary education a rule by law.
 
 sudipa  15 Apr 2008 12:07
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Um, what about us young people who graduated at 17? Are you saying we should have had to stay an extra year just because we happened to be born at a certain time of year even though we may have been one of the top students in our class and were ready to move on to bigger and better things? Plus, do you really think that a law like that would stop people from dropping out?
 
 sherbert  23 Oct 2008 04:41
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Just another lazy bit of legislation from Labour. As Hidell says there is no point a lot of kids staying past 16, they would be better served getting work experience and an apprenticeship to learn a trade. If they haven't learnt the basics by 16 then they are destined not become doctors and lawyers etc. We need mechanics, plumbing, builders, let's stop the idea that everyone must go to college and university. There are only so many Poles to come and do the jobs we haven't trained people to do.

Also when education is voluntary those staying on at 16 would do so because they want to learn. The troublemakers and the disruptive would go allowing more time to be dedicated to those who benefit from it.

Furthermore, who is paying to keep them at school for 2 more years?
 
 StBalders  21 Apr 2008 13:01
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I don't want to go to school with a bunch of pot-heads.
It's their choice to drop out or not.
 
 im_trumpet  21 Apr 2008 12:36
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I think it's a bad idea. It's clear that some people are just not scholastically inclined. Those people get little or nothing from school. They can only begin to thrive in some other kind of environment - the kind offered by a workplace, where they can learn valuable skills and take pride in exercising them.
 
 Hidell  08 Feb 2008 20:52
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