Should Students Be Required To Stay In School?

The controversial topic that principals and school administration talk about is whether to raise the requirement age to stay in school. In the end, students should not be required to stay in school until they are at the age of eighteen. For one, some students need to help their family pay for their food and bills by getting a full time job. Not every family is lucky enough to be able to have their mom and dad to be able to have a job to be able to pay for all of the bills for their family. In the “Letter” the author states, “Rather spend the day getting to school and back feeling helpless, I decided to step up and look for a job to really help out at home.” Reminding the school administration that there are some students who need to dropout of school to help out with their family. Also, some
In the “Letter” the author states, “mom or dad finds a good job in the next few months I’ll be able to go back to school full-time next fall.” This shows that although students will drop out because of complications that doesn’t stop them from thinking that they will go back to school or that they won’t go back to school in the future. Third, the students will cause distractions. In the the text “Paul Moran Talks with Missy Remiss on WSCH” the text stated, “forcing students to stay in school when they don’t want to be there can cause problems for teachers and other students as well.” Showing that the school administration can increase the age but that will not make the student learn and it is possible that the student will cause destruction to other students. On the other hand, the lower age dropout rate the higher the unemployment rate may be in an affect, the Radio Interview states “without high school diploma have lower earnings, higher unemployment…” which means that students with no high school diploma may not have a good time finding a