Curent high school education should not be mandatory

I have noticed my opponent has placed his sources in the comments due to lack of characters. I'm not quite sure that is legal, but I suppose the audience can decide on that. I will move on to my refutations now. Refutations "Even if it was possible that everyone benefits from high school then everyone would go to high school, even if it was not mandatory so there's no point of making it mandatory in the first place. " There are many teenagers who are lazy and would rather hang out with friends. We need to force them to go to school so they can benefit from it. They can learn new things and become educated members of society, rather than people who have very little knowledge about the world, government, economy, and society. "The person might has job opportunities (ex: A rising actor/actress or musician that does not have time to pursue a high school education), wants to focus on other job skills not offered in high school, wants a simpler life, or finds school to be difficult. " Job opportunities? High school has extra classes such as drama or music. What about colleges such as Julliard that have been known to produce excellent musicians? What about Purchase College that was ranked top in the US for its acting and drama curriculum? You must go to high school in order to move onto college and if you want to be the best at something, you have to go to high school. Hence, more benefits come from high school instead of dropping out before. "Maybe someone would rather be a janitor working an easy job than work in a stressful job that he or she hates. And even if everyone had a doctorate degree, someone would still have to be a janitor. " Seriously, who would prefer to be a janitor? It's a horrible, smelly job with low pay. I'm sure everyone wants to be employed at a higher level and make more money. It may be true that there still will be janitors, but don't you feel you accomplished something after passing high school and possibly college? You must have learned things from all those years that make you an educated member of society, unlike some other people. "Then how do you explain how a song that says "f*** your money" is highly liked song with over 4 million views? " How can you refute a point by using a song? The reason why it is consistently viewed is probably due to the opinion that it is a good song. My opponent has not refuted this argument substantially enough and so, if you graduate from high school, you will make more money. "It's a big contrast that US high schools are far worse than US universities. One reason US universities are better is because they are optional. " How does that make any sense at all? You never clearly stated the reason why an option helps people perform better. Please clarify this argument. "So what if middle schools are also weak as well? How does that invalidate my claim in anyway? " Here is the reason why. Middle school is mandatory. PRO has stated that schools do better when they are optional. Those who don't want to go to high school drop out after middle school, but middle school provides poor education. They will be uneducated and need to learn more before they can live on their own and handle responsibilities with money and family. "Only because these things infringe upon other people's freedoms or harms others. Again education does neither. A society that infringes upon many freedoms for unnecessary reason is a tyrant. " So this argument is no longer valid, seeing as you said education does not infringe upon freedom or harm others. So, school does not hurt people in any way. "However forcing someone to do either one of these actions would be a serious infringement on one's rights, just like making school mandatory. " First off, you never stated any benefit of forcing someone to a horrible Justin Bieber concert and you never stated benefits for rape. There is no benefit. School has benefit, you must agree with me. You learn new things and you can live on your own with reasonable pay and a good job. Our forefathers wanted us to go to school and learn so our society wouldn't become ignorant. "Over Six hours of having your speaking privileges revoked, doing stuff when you would rather be doing other stuff might be considered harmful to some. " Over six hours of peaceful learning and fun on the playground and seeing and making friends is not punishment. My opponent has already gone back on his point that privileges are revoked or infringed upon two refutations ago. "However there though there are still jobs around. For example child actors, babysitters, caddies, lawn mowers, etc. " And have you not noticed there are very few child actors and kid caddies and babysitters don't make a lot of money nor lawn mowers as a kid? "As one's age increases one can get higher paying jobs. " No, one cannot. If you look at someone's application and it says middle school graduate, would you ever be hired to become, say, a businessman? Never. "I did list the various jobs one can receive without a high school diploma (ex: construction worker, driver, hair stylist, entertainer, chef). .. " If you want to become a top-notch chef, you go to special colleges. Hair stylists as well. Construction workers need high school diplomas [1]. Entertainers need to go to school if they want to make a living. Sure, taxi cab drivers don't need education except a driving education, but don't you see many people begging to be taxi drivers do you? Everyone wants to be successful in life. Those who can't focus get those jobs, not because they want to. You see taxi drivers waiting in long lines to pick people up, but no one wants a ride. "Do you see an industry that profits off of selling non-fiction books? Yes. " Those are because of schools. Schools buy the books, get children interested, and then children take it on their own. School is very important for this reason. "People are naturally curious and want to explore, so it would be natural for people to stumble across a field they enjoy. " Without school, children would never even have heard of certain subjects. High school broadens that expanse even more to other fields of knowledge that children enjoy. People only take interest after they've heard of something. Museums exist because children become interested in something, say space, after school. Math camps and science camps exist because children want to broaden their skills, or maybe their parents want them to. "The less educated make up a smaller voting population. " There will be a larger, uneducated voting population when people decide to drop out of optional high school. Uneducated people (especially middle school children) would not know about subjects such as abortion, the military, social security, and gun rights. How would a middle school educated adult know who to vote for? "Do you consider these personal experiences invalid sources? " Well, yes, due to the fact that a personal experience can be changed just to suit the bill, so to speak, or to fit your argument. Arguments 1. High school has benefits. 2. Educated people come out of high school. 3. High school people move to college who help society with new technology. 4. Educated people can take over government unlike others. 5. Middle school education is not enough to help society and the world. I await my opponent's response. Source: 1. . http://www.bls.gov...