What effect do you think these measures will have on education?

Question

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080903/tuk-uk-britain-schools-fa6b408.html

Do you think that having to stay in school until the age of 17/18 would have made any difference to your life or education? Do you think it will have any effect on the so called "ASBO Culture" if the kids are in school longer??

Answer 1

People dont realize that good social skills and talent are what's going to get you places in this world.  Nobody gives a sh*t about college degrees.

If you suck at connecting and impressing people, then you are wasting your time at school!

Answer 2

None at all, it is a way of keeping the unemployment figures low !

Answer 3

I only hope that in the extra time they are going to have to go to School, they learn to read , write and spell correctly because half of them do not even know how.I just wonder what they actually do at School these days, and on reflection perhaps that is why they are making them stay on longer, as half of them do not know any of the above.I do not wonder most of them are as numb as brushes these days.

Answer 4

Asbo's have become a goal for a minority of teenagers and have little impact. I feel kids should make their choice at 17 as to whether they will stay on longer. Where is the early school leaver going to get a job? I left to do an apprenticeship at 16 and this was for finance reasons, I am going back to college, like many others my age, this year and I am looking forward to it. School should be happy days, not pressure days.

Answer 5

I think it makes no difference whatsoever. I did a 2 year secretarial course after leaving college at 16, which i loved. No uniform, no studying subjects like Maths that i wasn`t interested in. But me or my friends never went badly off the rails and had ASBOS. :)

Answer 6

I don´t think it´s  so important at what age students leave school, be it 16, 17 or 18.

What matters most is that they are studying something worthwhile, be it academic or professional qualification that will lead to gainful employment.

Quality not quantity.

Answer 7

I don't think it will make any difference as there is major breakdown in society and where ever the problem is pushed it won't disappear. Education starts in the home from good parents and its this foundation that builds for any hopeful prospects in the future. You can be poor but have all the riches in the world because the things that matter can't be bought but come from love and the words and teachings of the wise.

Answer 8

Not to me it wouldn't I was the first year that was kept on to the age of 16 when I was in 5th year before that you could leave at 15 when in the 4th year. My son had no interest whatsoever in school he worked from leaving school he drives all types of machinery, my daughter was good at school and liked it she stayed on went to college then to uni she has a degree and a very good job. My 2 children are opposites and it would not make a bit of difference to them if they had to stay on for more years, in fact I think my son would play truant or wag it as it was called in my day, so I think it will depend on the child and won't make a bit of difference to ASBO's

Answer 9

One thing it won't do is have any impact at all on "ASBO Culture" many if not most of the kids involved in crime and anti social behaviour have dropped out or been kicked out of education long before then - hence they have time on their hands to make a nuisance of themselves! The Government even have an acronym for these kids - they are known as NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training) they monitor these statistics via Connexions and Youth Offending Teams.

It wouldn't have made a difference to me since I stayed in full time ed til I was 21 and have studied two further courses as an adult since then!

Answer 10

Yes. Maybe my mum and dad wouldn't've bu ggered off so quick!  

Answer 11

the only effect it will have is to make the government's unemployment figures look better...that's what this is all about!!

Answer 12

To be honest, I think it will cheapen education.  I remember when the EMA came in and loads of kids stayed on just to get money and they'd just disrupt the class because they didn't want to be there!  And it meant that college or sixth form teachers had to deal with a bunch of kids again.  It'll happen the same with this 17 / 18 year old lot and there won't be enough teachers, or enough classrooms for them all!  Besides, there was some argument saying its because of the amount of kids that leave illiterate - but an extra year won't help that!  They should fix it in primary schools, because secondary schools can't cope!

Its a bad idea, I feel sorry for the kids that'll be used as guinea pigs in this!

Answer 13

nope because im 14 and i already HATE school, along with a bunch of other teens. teens hate the fact that they are FORCED to go so therfore they drop out to try to get the point across that they arent going to listen to the school laws. school isnt easy and making us go longer would KILL the future teens and the number of dropouts would increase rapidly.i mean school is a good thing really but half the stuff they teach anymore is pointless. the onloy ones we need are math, sciene, reading [language arts], & social studies, all the others need to be wiped out...exept for the classes in college. but in my opinion they should give us more days off and they should fire all the teachers that dont even give a c**p for the students, and the ones who take their stress out on students.

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Answer 14

Some schools are dangerous places, making 17/18 year old stay on will make them more so.  Also some teenagers are ready to start wotk at 16.  My working life began at 15. I had no O levels until I retired and now I have 1 for French.  lol

Leaving school early, as was the norm then, it did me no harm but I would have benefited from being able to stay on if I could have..

My kids all stayed on at school and went to college, because they wanted to.  Most children forced to stay on will rebel and the results will be more teenage bad behaviour at the least, and probably result in even more crime.

Provide those kids with training and jobs if that is what they want.