Education should be a privilege, not a right

1. "If you take the average person and tell them they have one shot at something, they'll try to keep that shot." If you tell a person who currently doesn't think it matters if they get an education they have one shot at it, they aren't going to try and they are going to be kicked out. Later on, they will wish they had realized it, but it will be to late and they won't be allowed to try again. This system will decrease the amount of people who graduate and over time widen the gaps between rich and poor, educated and uneducated, effectively declining our education system. "I'm simply making the point that most people are capable of realizing important decisions before the law states they should be." Except there will still be 15 year old students who don't quite understand yet and who are capable of understanding still; kids that we could still save from a life of heart ache, pain, and crime. Your system just wants to kick them out and give up on them. "Their lives are going to be hard with or without school." Yes, their lives will be hard either way, just much harder without school. "1) giving them some motivation to do well in school" Your giving some motivation, your telling others to just give up. Your making it more difficult in a way that make education less plausible for more and more under privileged children. "2) not wasting time on those who won't see education as important." I don't see it as 'wasting time' when we are saving so many childrens lives by spending time on them and giving them an education. Children that come from broken homes are going to be harder to educate, but they are not impossible to educate, and as long as we are capable of saving them; we should. "Those who refuse to realize what an education will do." But these problems you want to 'attack' might not need to just be kicked out. They might need to be confronted and shown a different way. They might be able to be saved and we are capable of saving them. It isn't going to fix problems by just ignoring them (and yes even when they are the toughest problems, it still counts as ignoring them) Many of these young adults aren't 'refusing to realize' they have just not understood quite yet. "I don't want to take an education away from anyone." Yes you do, you want to take away the right to an education from people. Whether or not you believe they deserve to have it taken away, still doesn't mean that you aren't taking it away from people. "The punishment exists in the hopes that the negative effects nullify any positive gain." It won't though. That's the problem, these kids aren't guilty of anything more then coming from homes where education is not prioritized. They are taught this and they need to be taught that an education is important; not just kicked out of the school system and forgotten. How can permanently expelling naive students from all schools going to solve anything? "More people graduate, more people go to college, more people become productive members of society." And even more people are left behind, kicked out, and forgotten. The kids that 'don't care about their education' are capable of doing really well in school, and since we are capable of helping them do this, we should. "Assume the "iffy" group will split 50/50. Under the new system, the "iffy" group will move to a majority understanding the value of an education." They probably won't and you really can't guess that they will. Your just making this up, if more pressure is pushed on a student who is already doing poorly, are they going to give up because it is to much work and now they might be kicked out anyways, or are they going to start trying even harder? It seems to me like more would choose the first one. And once again you are leaving out naive students who come from broken homes and abused children who can't do the work and wouldn't meet the qualifications you are asking them to meet. These children deserve a chance and this education system completely strips them of that chance. "And those who give up would give up regardless of what system is in place." Once again, in the current system students drop out on their own. In your system, they would still drop out on their own but, even more would be kicked out. This would undoubtedly increase the amount of students who do not graduate. "The negative impact on abused children, looking at things on a nationwide basis, is minimal." If one child is saved from a life of abuse by their school, it's worth it. "So bring in the new system and allow society and the school system to open their eyes. That's all I ask." And when their eyes stay closely shut so many children will go unnoticed, so many capable young people will be forgotten and left behind. All I ask is for everyone to be given second chances. An education decides the rest of their life. Without one they will surely fail and with one they could succeed. The only way to increase everyone's life style is to increase the amount of high school graduates we have over time. The system your proposing will surely decrease the amount of graduates we will have, I have clearly shown that. "These abused children go to school and STILL don't get noticed?" Sometimes they don't but, quite often they do. They will never get noticed if they are kicked out and locked up in their homes all day, but by going to a school, at least they have a chance. "Why do they shun it?" When did we ever come to the conclusion abused children shunned school? They would be kicked out, based on this system, because of their lack of hygiene, poor homework, and doing things like stealing food so they don't starve. But, do abused children 'shun' school more often then non-abused children? No. "Either way, you get kicked out because you refuse to accept the schooling our government provides." Or because you didn't understand the importance of an education when you were kicked out and you weren't allowed a second chance. "It's not a vital role." By middle school it becomes a vital role (this was originally about abused children not having the ability to complete their homework) abused children still won't be doing homework in middle school and they will still be getting bad grades, and they will be kicked out. In fact, they would most likely get bad grades from fifth grade on as well and be kicked out rather quickly, since they would never do homework and becuase of their psycological problems, they would have a tough time studying in class. "I'm arguing that schools shouldn't HAVE to feed neglected children, because there shouldn't BE any neglected children." But, there still ARE abused children and they still HAVE to be fed. "so they should "flight" to school and get a good education, but they don't." Correct, because they are to afraid to do ANYTHING. They are to afraid to fight or flight. So they just have to take the abuse until they are discovered. And in your system, they would be unable to get an education. then my solution can't do much harm and can only do good." How does that make any since,your basically saying 'well it's pretty bad now, I don't suspect it will get any worse...' how can it not get worse? Your forcing abused children out of school because they would fit the criteria of 'non-caring students.' Out of school abused children would most likely never get discovered. If your system halts the discovery of one abused child, it is officially not worth it. Your system will have the same amount of drop outs, and even more students who are forcibly kicked out, this would undoubtedly increase the amount of students who do not graduate, and make the current education system worse. These students who are now kicked out and dropped out, would increase in the next generation of non-graduaters, and then increase in the next... this will widen the gap.