I think keeping kids at school until 18, all of them not just the academics, is a cynical way of massaging the unemployment statistics by depriving them of 2 years opportunity to work and be paid rather than trying to drive them academically to the frustration of teachers and students alike and to the unnecessary expense of parents.
There is no more point in insisting that an academically mediocre child be forced to study than there is in driving a physically mediocre child to competitive sport.
I think we should recognise and respect the differences in peoples ambitions and aptitudes rather than trrying to drive all of them down a path that only some are suited for.
And if they do all leave school at 18, not 16, are the ones who would have left at 16 and leaving with inferior academic grades to the others going to have any better work opportunities. No, of course not. The same people will still be stacking supermarket shelves and cleaning the streets but now minus 2 years pay
2007-01-16
08:29:33
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