Speaking of education, there is a typically insane move out of Raleigh to saddle teachers with even more problems.
The idea to raise the mandatory school attendance age to 17 or even 18 from 16 would be a particular disaster for CMS high schools. Teachers already complain non-stop about disruptive kids who have no intention of trying to get an education but who do rob other students of their time and attention.
Forcing those kids to come to a school to cause havoc for another year or two makes no sense. Worse, there is no indication that a lower dropout age results in more dropouts.
That assumption seems to be behind this possible policy change, but as is common for all things education out of Raleigh, the notions do not square with reality. Looking at state-by-state data it is impossible to find any relationship between mandatory attendance ages and graduation or drop-out rates.
Plus hiking the age would cost the state about $9 million a year.
So to recap, the proposed policy change will actually hurt education in many classrooms across the state, especially in Charlotte, not address the core problem of dropouts, and cost taxpayers more money.
Yep, sounds like a sure thing.
