why do we have to go to school?

Answer 1

You're right. Go be a potted plant out in the garden. Don't expect my tax dollars to support you, though.

Answer 2

Before compulsory attendance at school, standards of literacy and numeracy were extremely poor. Poor people could not afford to educate their children. As a result, poor people on the whole remained poor.

To begin with, attendance was voluntary, until the governments realised that most poor families sent their children to work from a young age in order to help pay for food and housing; they went to work rather than going to the free schools.

Laws were passed and rigourously enforced to ensure children attended school.

Industrialists were also keen to educate their workforce, so that they could employ supervisors and middle managers from the general populace, as well as mechanical engineers.

So to answer your question, we have to go to school because;

it is the law;
it is a free way to educate yourself and better your earning potential;
it benefits the country by helping to provide an educated workforce for industry;
It benefits the community by providing artists, musicians and civil servants.

:D enjoy school!

Answer 3

We dont!
The (UK)law states that you must be educated in school or otherwise.
The problem there is that often both parents work and there is noone at home to teach you.
My own children were homeschooled by me after the infants school and have just returned to college to do their A levels.

Answer 4

Because although most people would like to sit at home and watch tv well many people still work to let you do that. However, the Government seems to think it's ok that a quarter of your life is education!

Answer 5

Read the book Summerhill by A.S. Neill. You can buy it from amazon.co.uk for approximately £7 or any good bookshop It's an eye opener

Answer 6

I'll tell you why. A long time ago in B.C. a UFO Landed in the farthest desert ever,they saw how retarted humans were so they started something known as school. It went on for ages. It still does. They discguise themselves like humans,but they aren't. So keep a close eye on your Teacher.

Answer 7

So you learn how to write, draw, pronounce words, grammars, spellings, English, talk, get a great future and your dreams or wish will come true! I'm also making a newspaper bout that question.

Answer 8

You have to go to school to learn. It's also helpful for the teachers, cos otherwise they'd be on the dole if they didn't have anyone to teach!

Answer 9

So that you don't fill up the Yahoo answer with yours silly questions... on the other hand... you go to school so that u can write answers on the Yahoo Answers

Answer 10

at this time of night you should be in bed!! you go to school to waste half your life and your not getting under your parents feet and oh yeah it helps you to get a job when you leave