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Originally Posted by emptypepsi
Well, I see your point. However, one must remember that in the United States children are not forced to attend High School after the age of 16 (if I remember correctly). Considering one starts at age 5 or 6, that is ten years of education we invest in a person. I don't see it as entirely unreasonable.
I don't think we put too much on kids, either. There are of course the kids who take many advanced courses and college credits, but that is simply a move on the childs part. There are programs in schools which allow you the "bare minimum" in order to get out and find a job.
Basically, I think we can conclude that it is in our best interests as a First World, Industrialized, and Free-trading society to ensure that children are being educated (both in and out of the home) to make the best decisions possible and tools with which to achieve those ends. As stated earlier: parents may be dropping the ball on the in the home portion, so would it be worth it to risk it with the out of home portion?
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No they're not forced to here either. They claim that they have to stay in school until 16 but we have a hard enough job getting parents to register their kids births here let alone get them to school by the age of 5 and staying there for 12 years.
Our education department is working on a program to get kids trained in vocational skills. Not generally but to at least help some of the ones who would otherwise drop out to have at least some saleable skills but at the moment it's still in the 'talking about' stage. We brought in OBE a few years ago, the teachers don't like it, the older ones still prefer the 'sit in your place and do what I say' type of teaching, which doesn't really work very well with modern children.
But I really think that parents have a much bigger role to play and they don't take enough responsibility.