Posted on 01/27/2012 7:39:18 PM PST by re_tail20
What purpose is served by keeping someone who doesn’t want to be there detained in class?
Of course, most of them stay for high school until age 18. But it isn't mandatory. A kid can actually go to work and find a job at age 14 if they choose.
If they leave a home life of drugs or domestic violence, and later become stable, they should be allowed to finish then instead of the current course of flushing taxpayer money down a hole.
A lot of these kids can't concentrate on geometric proofs or chemistry right now; They have their minds busy with where can they get food, or how can they get out of daddy's sight before he tires of punching holes in the wall and looks for a moving target.
They fall into booze or drugs or obsessive day dreaming.
It would be more efficient to wait til they are grown.
And this is discounting the ones that become gangbangers and need prison rather than a school.
Right, what’s missing from the educational picture is more government.
Many Amish and Mennonites end their formal education at 14 in the US as well. I know many of them and most have a better education than the average 12 year government school graduate.
Your state needs an economics lesson on state imposed ceilings and floors.
Plus they can all speak fluent Japanese.
PS Wikipedia shows 15 years not 14.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_leaving_age
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