No, really. Gerard Kennedy wants to stop any high school dropout below the age of 18 from getting driver’s licenses. See this shiny CBC News article on the subject.
As much as I value school, the government is once again showing their lack of problem-solving skills. (Maybe they should go back to school. 
) Getting kids to stay in school until they are 18 is not to be accomplished via negative incentive. Instead, perhaps the government should offer more positive incentives, such as … oh, I don’t know, expanding school to include different methods of teaching. Not everyone learns the same way, and this can be difficult, especially if one’s aspirations are not to go to post-secondary education.
But of course, that would cost “money.” Darn government… . 
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We have alternative schools…Yes our school system should definitely get more funding. I actually think that the "negative incentive‘ as you call it is a good idea, because it keeps potential dropouts (who want to drive cars) IN school, and ANY reason that keeps them in is good for THEM. I’d think that potential dropouts would not consider alternative methods of schooling…
Yeah, but what about teens with problems more pressing than school? Those who have to work, take care of sick family or something, who put school as a secondary or tertiary concern? I think that sometimes people do need to devote more time to mundane matters of their life, then go back to school when they can focus more time on their studies. 
Zero plus two? YAY the questions get easier.
Teens our age should not be having problems such as those… Even if anyone has to work, it should only be part-time, not full-time. School should be of primary concern. For everybody.
We don’t want another Industrial Revolution… :/ That thought is unbearable!
Until child poverty becomes a non-issue, that won’t happen. 
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I completely agree. The government makes me so bloody angry. The idea of having different teaching methods is a very good one, but as you said, that’d take money and heaven forbid they spend money on something that would better the nation.
Wednesday, December 14, 2005 at 10:25 PM