Mandating high school through 12th grade keeps the industrious youth who’d just as soon enter the workforce out of competition with adult, and specifically adult union, labor. Additionally, it would provide the only accessable pool of cheaper labor able to compete against illegal immigrants. Your average 13-18 year old generally isn’t obligated to support a wife and kid, and often is not even obligated to a rent payment.
God forbid our path towards utopian dumbed down socialism be diverted by a few million industrious youths... /sarc>
Good point. I agree with you. My son is in his final year in High School. He doesn’t know what he wants to do and has decided to go Air Force. School is torture. He has taken all his important classes and basically has boring make work now...we have to keep him focused-not easy.