• School should be optional for the reason that the children who do not want to learn disrupt the children who want to learn. The children who cause trouble in the classroom cause the teacher to pay more attention to them and not the ones who do want to learn.

• i think school should be optional past the age of 11 because we all know enough to look after ourselves past the age of 11 it should be optional because we all know enough maths and big enough vocabs to look after ourselves we should not waste 1 fifth of our entire lives in school a quarter of the population of England and America go to school

• -At the end of the school semester, attendance should not matter, just the grades that are recieved. If the student is still able to study and pass his tests, attendance should be voluntary.

-Passing grades are not correlated with perfect attendance. There are many students who attend class every day, but still manage to fail.

-Nowadays, many students have responsibilties at home (helping in a single-parent home, helping ailing parents, taking care of younger siblings) and sometimes being absent from school is necessary.

-Voluntary attendance should be a privilage to students who can prove the can still pass their classes.

• Of course it should be voulentary earlier in our history it used to be and people were better off for it. The people in the school wanted to be there thus better education providing more one on one with kids who want to excel and make something of themselves as compared to other kids where school is just an all day babysitter for parents. Secondly i dont think the government should have the right to say who does and doesent attend school as far as i can tell our country should be free but they lock down on young people and make them go to school and arrest parents who dont make them? Does this sound right or free at all?