By autumn of 2008 the government proposed that a new age leaving the school will be at the age of 18, and it will come to force from 2013-2015. The absence rate for year 11 pupils age 15-16 is currently over 10 per cent and schools facing challenging circumstances even higher leading some to argue that leaving age should be reduce to 14 from the current 16.
They claim the legislation will result simply called "warehousing" truculent youth rather than producing the skilled workers of tomorrow.
This new leaving age of 18 can be seen as a final effort to include the reluctant 23 per cent of 16-18 years old who don't pursue any education or training once they leave school. It is probable that the final few will be fairly resistant to legal penalties for non-attendance-so is it a desirable or realistic policy to pursue? But there should be mandatory efforts to help this situation. It is a crisis in the United States of America. It would help the situation with children staying in school and pursuing an education to combat the learning process for a job in the future.
But will the policy work and what have we learned, or should I say what has history taught us?
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