i have heard of worse ideas even if its said in jest. allow em to leave if they get a job as school isn,t for everyone especially todays woke schooling. know my lad and all his same minder mates would have jumped for a chance to leave at 14 if they had a job to go to. its not exactly sending youg kids down the pit is it.

Perhaps said in jest but there are lots of kids at this age just treading water at school with no prospect of qualifications. Providing they have an offer of an approved real job let them go. They will earn money and have a stake in society and no doubt the crime rate will fall.
I am sure my spiritual and intellectual guru Jacob Rees Mogg would be in full approval of this.
The world needs chimney sweeps and shoe shine boys.

even thats an improvement on pissing away years at some new university doing a pointless course to fudge youth unemployment figures. or as i heard the other day someone doing two 3 year courses and then going into nursing where the 2 courses had nothing to do with the job she went into.

Like everything universities are just businesses now, having taught at them I can tell you there are a large percentage of students who should be nowhere near them but are accepted on courses just to fulfill the numbers. University even had to setup a course in basic maths as freshers where just not up to standard.

It would be far better if they went straight into the employment market, especially when so many positions are unfilled at present.

now you have parents though who set up bank accounts for their kids once they have popped out of the womb for when they get to uni as they call it now. talk about expectations and jumping the gun.

When I served my time each and every journeyman had an apprentice, not nowadays as employers see apprentices as an additional cost. Fortunately in my day in the late sixties and early seventies there was an abundance of engineering companies, shipbuilding, mining, petro chemical complexes, steel works etc. Those have all but disappeared so what is actually left in the U.K. for the kids of today ?

Just read that our very own MP Jill Mortimer said 107 days ago for Boris to go. Now she wants him back.
You cant make this up

Houchen on sky news now backing Boris with Rishi as chancellor.
This is bonkers.

It's about as likely as Rishi for PM and Boris as chancellor.

or boris in charge of family planning.