Forced education will cause 'mass truancy'
Forcing teenagers to stay in education until 18 will cause "mass truancy" and criminalise thousands of young people, a teachers' leader has warned.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown's plan to raise the leaving age for the first time in 35 years will "prolong the agony" of school for many teenagers already bored by the classroom, said Geraldine Everett, chairman of the Professional Association of Teachers.
It is the latest in a series of attacks aimed at the Government's proposals to fine 16 to 18-year-olds if they skip school, college or on-the-job training.
First education was a priviledge, then it was a right. Now it is a curse.
Ministers want to change the law requiring all teenagers to remain in education or training until their 18th birthday - the first increase in the leaving age since 1972.
If school is about education, then why is it measured in "time spent" and not "mastery gained." This is hysterically funny. This law would literally force some students to attend college or face a fine. So much for taking time off to travel or getting a job.
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It's also part of the one size fits all mentality of the public schools. IF you are such and such age you must be in such and such grade because that is the grade the rest of the kids your age are in. Never mind that you are capable of doing more advanced work.
If a business had so many dissatisfied customers they would rethink their product. Instead, the reaction of educrats is the equivalent of locking the customers into the store and forcing consumption of the same old product. It does nothing to improve the product or customer satisfaction.
Forcing people to take a so called free service is so crazy. The one-size-fits all approach is a serious limitation. Public education might have a chance if it used a business model.
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