Military school mandatory for middle/high school dropouts? Options

[Tsukuyomi-No-Mok...]

So where i'm from there's a high rate of drop outs from middle an dhigh school and the kids who drop out usually go off cause trobule shoot each other up and cause alot of problems.
yea it makes the area look bad and all but also because of that it's kinda like alot of people are taking up space in a school which our tax dollars pay for and they aren't using them for anything but barley passing grades or jus failing constantly.
so what if we were to force the kids who drop out to go to military school where they are watched over by a military drill Sargent and basically lived like they were in boot camp. would that help motivate people to stay inschool and actually do their work

what do u think??

[brooklyneast05]

i don't think it's a good idea. if people want to drop out then they want to drop out. there are already incentives to stay in school and people still choose to drop out. i don't think we should force them into military school, or that that will even fix what's wrong with half the kids anyway. why military school? i mean what does the military have to do with anything. i don't understand why you choose this specifically as the punishment for kids who don't want to stay in school.

and what about people who just drop out of high school and go get a job and get on with their life? they have to be FORCED into military school because some kids in some area who drop out cause trouble?

[Melie]

i don't think it's a good idea. if people want to drop out then they want to drop out. there are already incentives to stay in school and people still choose to drop out. i don't think we should force them into military school, or that that will even fix what's wrong with half the kids anyway. why military school? i mean what does the military have to do with anything. i don't understand why you choose this specifically as the punishment for kids who don't want to stay in school.

and what about people who just drop out of high school and go get a job and get on with their life? they have to be FORCED into military school because some kids in some area who drop out cause trouble?

you do have some valid points.
but why drop out to "get a job and get on with their life" when getting a degree will give them a better advantage of getting a better paying job?

[brooklyneast05]

you do have some valid points.
but why drop out to "get a job and get on with their life" when getting a degree will give them a better advantage of getting a better paying job?

that's their own choice and people have their own reasons for dropping out. i don't personally understand why someone would want to drop out, but i know that not everyone is cut out for getting a degree. to a certain extent, you can't make people want to learn like that in my opinion. having a better life/job is one of the incentives that i was talking about that we already have, but it's not enough to keep some people in. if people choose to drop out of high school and go into the work force, i think that is their own decision. i don't know that i see how forcing them into military school will really fix things. and like i said, not every high school drop out is some trouble maker who goes around shooting people. i know numerous people who dropped out and they are just fine.