Why do governments keep teenage students in schools/colleges when the students really don't want to be there?

Question

Especailly those with learning difficulties who have no interest in study and only want to get out and work!

Answer 1

The simple answer is the economy! The complicated answer is because that because of medical advances and lifestyle changes in the last few decades, we are living longer but having fewer children. As a result, the number of old people in the UK population is greater than the number of people old enough to work. This situation is made worse by the fact that the job market is more competitive, so unlike the middle of the last century (e.g. 1960s), you can no lomger just walk out and get a job you like and stay in it until you retire.

All of this means that at the moment, the people in work are not earning enough money to support the increasing number of old people and employment figures are still high. The government has decided that one of the reasons why there are more unemployed people is that many of them are people who have left school and don't have the appropriate qualifications to get a job. To address this issue, the government is trying to persuade teenagers to stay on, so that they can gain the qualifications needed to get a job. This will ease the burden on the economy because they are now employed and therefore no longer claiming benefit (no longer supported by the Tax payer) and a a bonus are also earning money which can be used to support the older population. As you have already spotted, there are a number of problems with this policy. these include:

1. Putting people into a situation they don't want to be in.

2. As a result of 1, people who genuinely want to go to uni and are talented enough to do so are deterred as a result of 1's misbehviour.

3. The ability of people trained to teach adults to deal with children (which is how many of the people described in 1 behave).

4. As a result of 1 and the governments drive to get 50% of poeple into university means that the standards required to get into uni are lower and therefore the quality of graduates is declining.

5. Employers are therefore peeved because these 'graduates' lack the basic skills needed to suceed in the workplace because of 1 and 4, which of course, they have to pay for (more costs to run the business etc)!

6. The time that it will take for this policy to actually have an impact on the economy, given that the population increases every day (by the way, this also explains why the government is now trying to get single mothers back to work-another group of people who are old enough to work and therefore support the economy but like the teenagers are currently not in a position to do so)!

Answer 2

Because during the teenage years the brain undergoes a transformation from being a child's brain to being an adult brain. During this time, certain faculties, such as the ability to identify certain emotional expressions, the ability to calculate risk, and the ability to distinguish between right and wrong, are diminished ("ocean" says this too). So it wouldn't be responsible for adults to let their teenage children loose in the world at this stage. If you are a teenager and don't like reading this - tough luck! This is backed up by many psychological studies. Teenagers simply don't make the right decisions, which is also one of the reasons for all the friction with parents at that time. The good news is they come out the other end as fully functioning adults!

Answer 3

Schools are glorified babysitters. The education is secondary. Obviously, we are in the information age, so no one should have to memorize anything. Education should put students who are good in math and give them lots of good math stuff to learn that will make them successful. Science kids should learn more science, and sports kids should learn about health, sports, medicine, the human body, physics, etc. Other specialty areas should be split the same way. Education needs revamping in a big way. Kids these days are more adept at finding research papers online than they are at writing one. The rest of education should be how to take care of other business. Learn to read , use a bank account, manage finances, buy real estate, etc. Right now, all we have is a basic beurocracy that follows these major guidelines:
1. keep them quiet
2. make them learn a lot of bunk.
3. make them learn more in college, but pay for it
4. once they owe a lot of money, they can get a good job to pay it back.

Answer 4

short answer is confident MFS will forestall forfeiture of the tax refund for her student loans. Going lower back and claiming injured companion is the dumbest factor I actual have seen yet, it rather is comparable to married submitting separate and you will loose the exemption, which you needless to say want. yet once you like the refund you're able to do it and then the debt will reappear for her. i won't have the ability to do a "tirade" yet why might you no longer want to pay this debt? you're turning out to be a large earnings from a stay at abode companion and it rather is a small factor to pay. student loans won't bypass away and could be paid lower back until she dies penniless in the previous receiving SS. If issues are as tight as you mean then you qualify for hassle deferral in any case.

Answer 5

When my dad was a kid (in the 1950s), the last thing he wanted was to be in school. He hated it and was thoroughly bored by school - he couldn't wait to get out and get into the real world! Once he was in the real world for a while, he realized he couldn't get a very good job with just a high school education. He went to some school like ITT Tech and learned to teach computers, but a few years later he was laid off because he constantly had to be retrained as technology advanced, and his bosses decided it was cheaper just to hire young kids fresh out of school rather than retrain my dad. Ever since my brother and I were little, my dad has instilled in us the importance of getting a college education - I never even knew growing up that not everyone went to college after high school!

Had someone insisted that my dad go to college after high school, he might have had a very successful career. It's too bad no one did - my dad is very intelligent (I got my smarts from him, and I went to MIT!).

Answer 6

Some schools in city areas have links with the local college that allows 14/15/16 year olds to do a NVQ in a trade, while doing the Maths and English GCSEs the teenagers are LEGALLY required to do. It works quiet well here in Bristol.

Answer 7

Because alot of teenagers think they know everything there is to know at 16; they don't. It might not be nice, but it is for the benefit of the young person. It allows you a little more time to decide what you want to do with your life, i.e. go on to work, Uni, etc, without the stress of financial worries which going into work will often bring. the quicker you go into employment (which most likely will be on a low pay), the quicker you have to sort out your own finances, bills, rent, etc. I think maybe courses should be more practical / vocation based, but young people should still be made to go! I don't know where your from; in the UK its not compulsory to stay in education after 16, but a great deal of our young people do.

Answer 8

It was generally recognised that child labour is akin to slavery, i.e. not a good thing. Kids should be kept in schools because the vast majority of them don't know what's good for them. Education will only increase your employability when you leave school. Even the thickest of people need basic arithmetic and read/write skills to function in the modern world. Those with learning difficulties stand no chance of ever working if they are not given even more education to help and overcome their problem.

Answer 9

Because education is important! The best way for you to network is through school. Who you know can be very detrimental. Also even though you think you are ready to give up on learning and just work knowledge can help you make well thought out decisions in your work.

Answer 10

a few years ago i did a part-time course at college during the day as that was when i had free time - i was in a class with 17 years olds, most of whom were in the building but didn't bother attending class - or sat there chatting about what they'd done the night before, or discussing whether they'd bother going for their afternoon classes or go shopping etc.
out of a class of 18 their was only 1 (and me) who were actually there to learn!!