Bad Actors 1212

A couple of days ago I was discussing with a friend of mine who teaches at HHS, the need for law officers in the schools to keep order. He said that was blown all out of proportion. I opined as how having to have law officers in schools at all was out of proportion. He responded that the reason it was out of proportion was that of the 1200 some odd students in the high schools, only about 50 caused all the problems. FIFTY. Even one is too many, much less fifty. I couldn't believe a teacher would be so satisfied with such a large number of trouble makers wandering the halls of our high schools. I say isolate the 50 and put them in separate facilities so the other 1150 can learn something. I'm for raising the drop out age to 18. An unemployed 16 year old on the streets is just trouble waiting to happen and is bound for the court system. Raising the age will undoubtedly raise the number of bad actors from 50 to who knows what? Fifty may not be a big number but being close to the bottom statewide in education is being caused by something. The fifty probably have a lot to do with it.

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[Philip]

I am against it but it is an institution that is going to be with us whether I'm against it or not. If it plans to be any good at all it should at least try to keep kids in school rather than turning them loose at 16. It will obviously involve a "reform school" style setting for the 16-18 year olds but for the amount of money we spend on education, that should not be too big of a problem.

[What's it going to be?]

I thought you were against public education in the first place. Let private schools handle it. And now, you say pass a state law keeping students in school until age 18. Which is it going to be? Let people figure out how to educate their children, or require them to stay in school until 18?

You have conflicting opinions and I would like to see how you reconcile them.