Journal Response #19

I strongly believe that attendance should be mandatory in school, with the few exceptions of being ill or having a serious family issue. Many students don't realize what a gift education is and what life would be like if they weren't put into school at the age of 5 and weren't forced to learn. I find it terrifying to imagine this nation without an education system that requires every child to go to school because those uneducated children turn into adults and though those adults may have skills or have been self taught, the majority would most likely be ignorant human beings. If kids in this generation had the option to go to school or not, they would choose not to. They would rather be playing video games or watching cartoons instead of being in a classroom and learning tedious subjects that might not interest them in the slightest. In the end, it would of course be their parents forcing them to go to school because their parents would know how difficult it is to make a living and how much more prosperous their children would be with an education that extends beyond elementary, middle school and high school. Years ago people were fighting for the right to get an education in order to get better lives right? Just like some people still do today though they are denied because of where they come from. If the masses of this nation were not educated, that would just be asking for a dictatorship in my opinion. The few people that would have an education would manipulate the rest and eventually you would just have a repeat of history that the masses wouldn't know about in the first place. Just looking at other nations shows how vital education is and how we take it for granted. Attendance should be mandatory in school because knowledge is power and whether people agree or not, we are nothing without it.