What is your view on parents letting their children quit High School?

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  • camerashy
  on Oct. 8, 2009 at 11:25 AM

• I think it really depends on the circumstances.  I personally would not let my child quit.  If she wanted to quit I would tell her that she had to get a job first and pay me rent or move out.  I am saying this because my daughter is smart and should go to college.  Furthermore, I would not give her a dime and she would lose the privelage of using my car.  So, I would think that would make her think twice and go back to school.  I do know a person who was very smart with ADHD and dropped out of school.  They had a goal.  They got a GED went to hair and makeup school and is a very successful makeup artist in NY City.  High School is not for everyone....especially and all academic high school.  It is very hard to find a vocational high school.  I am all for keeping kids in high school and making them stay, but you have to offer an alternative to college prep.  Not all kids are college pre material so more schools have to be built that offer trades.  I don't know of any vocational high schools in my area.  I am from NJ and there a vocational high school that you could go to and when you graduated you were a certified cosmotologist, electricain, draftsman etc.  The school is still there probably because NJ spends more on education than any other state and has the lowest high school drop out rate.  I don't know of one vocational high school around me in CA and California spends the least amout per child on education. I think it is wrong to tell kids that they have to stay in school if they don't offer to teach them skill they could use to get a job.  If my daughter's passion was lets say....fashion design and she was focused on a goal I would let her drop out and get a GED only if she was old enough to enroll in a community college or school for fashion design.  Honestly, hard work and perserverance will get people farther in life then a high school diploma.   So Obamas make kids stay in school but you better come up with the money for vocational high schools equipted with the latest technology so kids can learn a trade for free!!!!!  Some kids finish high school and cannot afford a trade school afterwards!  If the US is in a recession where is the money going to come from.  This topic is just to get people to stop focusing on the real problems.  Making kids stay in school is not going to create jobs and keep manufacturers and large businesses in the US and help the economy.  OK, so I will stop now..lol.. 
  

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