{"id":844,"date":"2006-11-15T10:31:29","date_gmt":"2006-11-15T09:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/11\/15\/pros_and_cons_of_compulsory_schooling"},"modified":"2025-10-10T18:10:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:10:40","slug":"pros_and_cons_of_compulsory_schooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/11\/15\/pros_and_cons_of_compulsory_schooling","title":{"rendered":"Pros and cons of compulsory schooling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/society.guardian.co.uk\/socialexclusion\/story\/0,,1947483,00.html\">Pros and Cons of Compulsory Schooling<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is from the Society supplement in today&#39;s <em>Guardian<\/em>, in which a former headteacher discusses the case of &quot;Charlie&quot;, &quot;a determined 15-year-old truant&quot; who has been working, illegally but successfully, for a landscape gardening company.  This raises the important issue of whether it is worthwhile keeping teenagers in &quot;education&quot; longer and longer when many of them resent being there and see no benefit in it.  Believe it or not, the government is said to be planning to <em>raise<\/em> the leaving age to 18 and this stupid idea is said to be in today&#39;s Queen&#39;s speech.  (Also see <a href=\"http:\/\/education.guardian.co.uk\/letters\/story\/0,9874,1335723,00.html\">this letter<\/a> from a teacher who started his career in 1972, the year the leaving age was raised from 15 to 16.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pros and Cons of Compulsory Schooling This is from the Society supplement in today&#39;s Guardian, in which a former headteacher discusses the case of &quot;Charlie&quot;, &quot;a determined 15-year-old truant&quot; who has been working, illegally&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-dC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42222,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions\/42222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}