GED should only be for those who are older and come from another country

I think I am going to start a debate one day on appropriate and innappropriate times to critisize a wikipidia link. If I am using it to back up a claim or a statistic, its open for critisizem do to how easy it is for the site to be edited to say what you want it to say. If I link it to define or explain something though, then it is not open up to critisesm. example: I look for a good link that seems to suffiently define DNA wich I need done for a debate opening round. Wiki is one of the first comprehensive ones that shows up on google and the page seems to satisfy defining the term I wanted to argue. That would be okay. Here I linked it looking for a suffenent explination on the concept of the role the resolution plays in a debate. for the moment the page on resolutions was not edited to say anything silly and it contained all that I wanted you to read.It seems you have finally gotten around to confessing you want to cut people off before a certain age, 21, and make them wait until those years pass to get there GED.You said " so that is plenty of time to get the extra help that they need to prevent them from dropping out". Somewhere along the lines you forgot to put the logic explaining this statement. are we now talking about those yet to drop-out? because I have to tell you, times got nothing to do with whats needed to keep that from happening.but in any case this doesnt address what to do with the ones WHO DO DROP OUT. no amount of social programs and welfare or church ministries are going to make drop outs flat out dissapear. so for the ones that Droped out now what for them? lets say a 16 year old droped out. yeah your changing the G.E.D. age requirement discuraged him some from dropping out but it ultimately did not stop him. it was not some clever easy way out plan for this paticular guy anyway to drop out, he was just striken with such drepressed apathy that he just quit careing a droped out.now this 16 year old eventually turns around though before the years end. while his drug addled parents are not worth anything he did have one good grandparent who took notice of his drop out decision and worked hard at getting help for him to turn his life around. by the time he gets over his depression at 17 years old he starts to look to do something about reversing the drop-out problem he made for himself. he cant go back to school, so whats left for him. nothing except to do the next best thing and get his G.E.D. But with your system he's locked out from doing so for another 4 years!and why do you want to lock out a kid in that situation from doing all there is to do in fixing his situation? to send a arbatrary message to kids who are still in school to think twice before dropping out, as if thinking had much to do with the desicion to do that.The problem with your system is that it's judgmental, mean-spirited and aimed at not helping but punishing. at the very most the only desired objective in using it is to 'discurage' the high school drop-outs wich given your definition for why they are dropping out would be just as 'discuraged' by merely raising the standards of what it takes to earn a G.E.D. No need for banning drop-outs from getting back on the right road until they are 21.