JOURNAL #19

       I think that school attendance should be mandatory because good attendance leads to good grades. If school attendance was not mandatory then most students would choose not to come to school. Once everyone stops coming to school then less and less people will be educated in America and this would lead to more crimes in our society. Education is the foundation of which every country thrives on so without education our nation would become illiterate and unable to prosper as we have in the past. If we become stagnant then we will be unable to keep up with competitors in foreign countriesand never be able to become mor than what we are.
      Another reason we need school to have mandatory attendance is because if we don't it would lead to poblems such as crime. Crime would increase because with out education then people will begin to lack the common sense required to make good decisions. The increase in crime would lead to things such as increase in taxes in order to pay for the amount of people in jail. Then that fact that less people are being educated does not just affect the people being educated but everyone in the society.


What would happen if attendance was not mandatory?



      Less people being educate will also lead to more people being homeless because they will not be able to find adequate jobs. Some people might say that if you get to choose to go to school or not it will prepare you for life and teach you how to make good decisions. However I do not believe that is a true statement. I believe that by not making attendance mandatory it would only lead to bad things.