Highlights of the new Education Act include increasing the age of compulsory attendance to 17 from 16 years to encourage more students to complete their high school education.
The reason for this is to reduce the shamefully high drop-out rate in Alberta. Making school mandatory for the few kids who see little to no value in education is a waste. There are some kids who know what they want at an early age. They want to go work at mom or dads business or they have some sort of work lined up. Forcing them day after day to sit in a classroom to simply fulfill a government requirement is not likely to help them complete their high school.
If the government wants to encourage kids to finish high school, pay for college or University. Free post secondary education would be a great incentive to stay in school.
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