Should school be compulsory??????

Answer 1

Yes. We are already filled with a nation of idiots. Christ knows what would happen if everyone stopped gaining any education.

Answer 2

In the UK attending school is not compulsory. Receiving schooling is.
I think to take away the right of parents to provide private education for their children is wrong. It has been shown that these children are as well, and indeed better, educated than those attending state schools. They are removed from the jungle of peer pressure and can learn at their own speed. A great advantage when compared to the system under new labour whereby all children must be treated as equal regarding their capability for learning. I've long held the belief that this Government has a hidden agenda to turn the British nation into an uneducated mass with the majority blindly following the chosen few. The system now in place does little to change my view.
The latest idea off their production line of raising the school leaving age to 18 does not instil me with confidence. What benefit will be gained from a further 2 years at school by a bored 14 year old who would rather be sat playing video games is lost on me.

Answer 3

Yes I think so personally, that school especially education is compulsory from the time a child has the right to go to school.

Education is very important in reeling a child to become an adult. Imagine if there are no school, everybody cannot even read the sign on the road that NO CROSSING,what is that? The town is like a lifeless zombies walking around couldn't tell his left from his right.

Answer 4

Yes, but the age limit should not be extended to disguise unemployment as it is now. Once they are 15 & 16 they wnt to earn some money. This ewho stay on to A Levels want to be there and can do without a crowd of younsters who want to be somewhere else. We already have an unsustainable ambition that 50% should go to university which has caused a growing problem with people gatting a 2/1 in a non-subject

Answer 5

School isn't compulsory, having an education is!!!

You can home school, and in some cases the children learn more in a safer environment. External classes and clubs can deal with the social side of life. It just depends whether as a parent you would feel up to the challenge!!!

Answer 6

In the UK school, is compulsory till age 16 and parents face legal action brought by local council if they do not force the children into education

Answer 7

Yes and Grammar schools should be supported and selection the comprehensive system that the left supports is a failure everyone has different needs and abilities and also some want to learn and some don't. And corporal punishment should be restored as well but the airheads on the left will probably attack it but it was there so called revolution that has wrecked education in Britain among other things.

Answer 8

Definitely. Education is something everyone needs. In jobs a person needs good grades in their subjects to get certain jobs. Without these grades, we'd have a world full of fast food workers, because what employer wants an un-educated person, who has no record at school?
Of course, you can get jobs at ages of 13 and so on, but these jobs aren't the sort of jobs a person wants when they're 20-30!
If a person refuses to go to school for no reason, they're just being silly. A good education is something many people lack: and it effects a the local communities by their poor way of life.

Answer 9

School in the UK is compulsory, but what the education system is doing wrong is that they are not teaching the basics of living.

I relied heavily on my dad to do basic plumbing, DIY, mechanics, wiring a plug, changing locks etc up till a few years ago. Many women may rely on the men in their lives to these, but I also know many men who don't know these skills either. I have a shed that needs assembled and I'm too scared to do it myself, and I'm even more scared of my partner trying to do it!! My dad comes from a generation of what I call 'real men' who weren't afraid of a bit of hard, hands and knees work. That's the schools need to include in their curriculum and I know you would see a whole lot of youngsters wanting to do these classes as their mothers and fathers these days are too busy with their jobs/sitting in front of the tv to be teach them these basics, or like me, I'll go get Dad.

Answer 10

Education is compulsory. Personally I think one should be educated in a group of ones peers. I would not like to see a return to the days of child labour in Britain.

Answer 11

The day the law stops compelling the public to financially support those who can't be bothered to become literate in the basic skills of life and work is the day the law can stop compelling every person to finish basic schooling. Maybe you just don't feel like studying? Then maybe the rest of the country just doesn't feel like supporting you when you can't find a job...