It is unfair to the teen and also the responsible guardians of this individual, and thus the law should not be enforced and rescinded from state legislature. .
I agree with Barnet and Bedau when they said, "What is needed is not legal pressure to keep teenagers in school, but schools that hold the interest of teenagers," (p, 7). Students, who do not want to be in school, don't have to be. I understand that it is required to remain in school until the age of sixteen, but after the age of sixteen, they are free to make their own decisions. Barnet and Bedau faced that issue when they state, "A sixteen year old usually is not mature enough to make a decision of this importance," (p.7). If a student isn't mature enough to make the decision to drop out of school, how are the going to make the mature decisions when driving. States give teenager's driver's license at the age of sixteen because they believe that teens are old enough to make mature decisions. With the students who don't want to be in school, it leaves more comfortable class rooms where teachers can concentrate on the students who want to learn and be successful in school. "A law of this sort deceives adults into thinking that they have really done something constructive for teenage education, but it may work against improving the schools. If we are really serious about education youngsters, we have to examine the curriculum and the quality of our teachers," (p.7) states Barnet and Bedau. As a teenager that just graduated high school, I had thoughts about dropping out of school, not because of the surroundings or the bad experiences, but because of the public school system. It is so horrible now due to the over crowding of schools and not enough teachers for comfortable classroom environments that it made high school a challenge to those who needed the one on one interaction with the teacher. With the teenagers who don't want to be at school, it gives those students a chance to get ahead in school.
