Jounal #19

Should school attendance be mandatory?  In your answer, be sure to explore what the function of education is, and what our nation would look like if the masses were less educated.


I believe that school attendance should not be mandatory in high school, there are plenty of students that are forced to be at school that obviously do not want to be there. Everyone should have the right to choose whether or not they do want to attend school. I believe that school attendance should be mandatory from elementary school up until the time you are in the 8th grade so that way everybody at least goes on in life to understand the basics in each subject and is not resulting in a society full of uneducated people.  If attendance was required from grade 1 up until grade 8, and gave everybody the choice to either go on to more schooling after that, or the option of just starting their life from there and be given the choice to find a job it would allow those who are serious of having a good life and being successful to actually concentrate in school and not have the same people who tend to be the disruptions in class that take the learning time away from those who are actually interested in learning.  Also, those who do not want to be at school no longer would be, those people would be off doing whatever it is they want to do.  I think this would be a pretty cool thing for people to try out in the future and if does not work, just keep requiring that everyone attends school.