No, I don’t think kids should drop out, but I also don’t think it is entirely the kids’ fault they feel the need to stop going to school. Our education is suffering in this country not because the students don’t want to learn, but because the quality of education that they are receiving is dismal. You have these kids in the inner city who go to school to try to get a good education, but realize they are not. For whatever reason: the teachers are no good, the challenge isn’t there, other kids. And these kids (many of them) feel that their time would be better spent going to work and making some money to try to support their family. And the same thing happens in rural areas. Dad needs help on the ranch = screw sitting in this awful classroom, I’m going to work. I think that we first need to figure out how to get the kids interested in what they are learning. Once they sit through an interesting physics class and an inspiring English class, then they may change their minds about dropping out.