DiamondDave
Army Vet
If kids don't want to be there, they shouldn't have to be there. The idea of mandatory education is ludicrous. It leads to the situation we have now -- our schools becoming warehouses instead of educational facilities. Teachers should not be babysitters. Teachers should be able to dismiss anyone who disrupts his or her classroom. You cannot force people to learn. It's a silly notion.
Okay, so when all the third graders decide they don't want to go to school anymore, we should just send them all home. Got it. You guys are cracking me up. Unfortunately your idiocy is a real thing that we must deal with.
children cannot decide that.. but a PARENT would, legally... and decide to home school.. or teach them a trade.. or whatever...
And YOU call OTHERS idiots??
The world is full of ones who will not or cannot handle the education... the world needs pizza makers and urinal scrubbers and musicians too... and if a parent notices their kid is not handling school but gravitates toward cooking, or notices the kid is a great wood carver, or notices the kid is a great athlete but dumber than a box of rocks, or realizes the kid does nothing but get suspended and expelled and will be a fry cook for life, there is no reason to make standardized education compulsory