PrOpOsAL

Why should schools let high school students choose the option to leave early instead of picking electives? Well why do student want to leave school early? Well first off, a lot of kids have jobs and some schools have CO-OP but some don’t. Also, the schools that have CO-OP only allow you to leave if you job is related to your career program. Nowadays it is hard to find jobs especially related to a trade because no one wants to hire a kid fresh out of high school whose only training is a trade school. Allowing student to leave two periods early instead of forcing them to pick predecided electives would allow students to accept responsibility and work or do something productive with their time and if they couldn’t handle the responsibility then I could understand forcing them to stay in school. School is all about preparing students for the real world and allowing students to leave and accept real responsibility is a perfect example of preparing kids for the real world. After all that's all the real world is, working and paying bills. Another option for giving the students a little more freedom with elective would be free time to catch up on work. I remember back in middle and elementary school we used to have study hall, what ever happened to that? Study hall allowed students to either catch up on make-up work or homework or just relax, and it gave the teachers a chance to relax.