Dropout Age Should Be Abolished

How would you feel if your parents we’re getting drag out of there house and going to jail for you not attending at school and what if the dropout age is raised which forces you to go to college? More importantly what if this was happening to you? Thousands of parents are going to jail for their kid not attending school. The dropout age and truancy are such a huge debate that been going on for years with no end in sight, the government needs to step in to finish this debate already. School shouldn’t raise the dropout age because at age 18 people are an adult, parents don’t see truancy as an issue, and don’t have enough money to support their kids in higher education.

There are many kids in the U.S that don’t have money to go to school. For

As a demonstration, author Swenson, a journalist from Us Today, states that “Student knows at 16 that he won’t have the resources to finance higher education, or if his community does not value higher education, a high school diploma by default of his birthday is unlikely to convince him to work hard and go to college.” (Swenson). This quote explains that high school students at the age of 16 knowing that they won’t go to college due to his culture/community that they don’t support higher education. Even if they give a high school diploma at birth that still won't convince to work hard and make it into college. This support my claim because some kids drop out before they graduate high school/ some only go for the high school diploma and don’t try to reach the higher education. The culture is a important thing when adding it as a factor because some culture/community kids work from a younger age than some other culture/community and some get higher education than others. The last factor that shows why they can’t get a higher education because they don’t have the resources to finance to pay for their higher education. For instance, author Swenson, a journalist from Us Today, explains that “Even if students are required by law to stay in school until they are 18, there is no guarantee that extra time spent in school will make them more prepared to get a job or attend college.” (Swenson). This piece of evidence shows that there isn’t a guarantee that staying in school by law until age 18 won’t help them prepare for there job or college. Some students high school already know what they want to do before they graduate from college. This supports my claim why the dropout age shouldn’t be raised because some students already plan for there future before or at the age of 16. Some students don’t really care for college at all