Should Kids Stay in School until 18?

Seems a good idea

No they shouldn't it should be as it is now once 16 they need to work or go collage

Either they stay in school or go to work. That's what the rule was for me anyway when I was a teenager living at home with my mum.

It depends on the pupil. Not everyone wants to stay till 18 because they want to go to college, they know what job they want to do. Others aren't academic and want to leave to get a job. Forcing some pupils to stay would be detrimental to them and to the other pupils.

I think the law on schooling should be a choice to be taken or not by each individual student. By the age of 18 they young adults are allowed to vote, do jury service, buy alcohol, get married and even stand as an MP or local Councillor. I do not see why an 18 year old, classed as an adult should not be allowed to make this decision for themselves.

I think it is a good idea

After school you have to go into some sort of education until 18 anyway, so no. School was awful for me and if I had to stay for another 2 years I would have struggled.

For my daughter, it would have been a good thing. She is 17 now and at college, but she finds it hard to motivate herself and doesn't have the help she had at school. But every kid is different; some of them know exactly what they want, and shouldn't be forced to stay at school.

Children stay in education or training until 18 now anyway. There aren't enough places for them all to be in a school.

I think; if they or their school feels they need to stay in education longer because of the disruption caused by Covid then they should be allowed to stay on for up to 2 years to catch up with lost work.

If the students do not wish to stay on then they need to show that they have caught up with work or have college or a job to start.

Yes they should. they don’t mature at that age. 18 should be the norm.

Not school. But I think they should stay in education (a college) if not working.

Keep them in school - they will be better educated ready for the real world and also mature

When i left school in 1984 i think- i went into a YTS scheme- anyone else remember those - the youth training scheme - got paid £25.25 per week for a full week of work. It was intended to stop kids from trying to sign on straight from school. Having said that - being paid such a low amount for a full week of work really made me appreciate a ‘proper’ wage when the YTS scheme ended !!

depends on so many factors, How good the school is being a big factor. There should be college places suitable for each person based on their needs to help them into employment. Just making them stay in school till 18 just for the sake of it is nonsense. It would not have done me any good!

yes

My daughter left at sixteen although the law stated she had to stay until eighteen. She was being bullied so I homeschooled her, but thing every for her.