Full time Education until 18? - [Closes 15/01/08]

[Mr.OSH]

Now with qualifications and education being said to be extremely important for everyones future, should everyone be made to legally stay at school or in full time education until they are at least 18 years old?

What do you think?

Happy Debating.

[CJ-real]

na crap

[mangle]

No.
My mate is useless at school but he wants to be a plumber so he's taking an apprentship. Idno how you spell it

[Nixt]

No.
My mate is useless at school but he wants to be a plumber so he's taking an apprentship. Idno how you spell it

Well it's perfect for him, because he could do that under the new laws... :S you don't have to go to college and do a levels, there are many things .

[mangle]

Well it's perfect for him, because he could do that under the new laws... :S you don't have to go to college and do a levels, there are many things .

Oh right. My bad

[Asher]

Definitely.

[Virgin Mary]

No, education is cruel. Plenty of people get by without qualifications. Most work is based on experience, not education, hence why most students end up committing suicide because they can't get a high-paying job because they're too inexperienced and then have loads of debt to pay off because they've paid a ******** to be told some random **. Any mandatory "education" should be based around occupations, not unnecessary facts.

[Ichig0]

No, education is cruel. Plenty of people get by without qualifications. Most work is based on experience, not education, hence why most students end up committing suicide because they can't get a high-paying job because they're too inexperienced and then have loads of debt to pay off because they've paid a ******** to be told some random **. Any mandatory "education" should be based around occupations, not unnecessary facts.

Agreed. I'm currently working with two men, one in his late 40's and one in his late 50's. From what both have told me of their education, today's curriculum is definitely failing us.

I've friends who've stayed on and taken cliché subjects such as A Level physics, sociology, pyschology and music. At the end of those subjects I'm 100% sure that only a minority of them will go forward and use their new skills in every day life.

What is being taught today is definitely not relevant to the majority of jobv available to school leavers and graduates. Let people prove themselves with experience and not what they can remember on the day of a memory-based exam.

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[WarezKid]

No rofl, i know more then most teachers in my school :rolleyes: