I agree Dan. While dropping out can have terrible consequences, it doesn't have to. You and you alone are in control of your life. A dropout can make himself just as successful as a graduate (which is something I'm just now beginning to find out). Go back, get your GED, and all the doors that are open to a graduate are now open to the non-graduate. However, taking away a persons car is a disaster in the making. Transportation is absolutley vital to finding any job, or furthering your education in any way. Instead of punishing those who drop out, the government should be finding ways to prevent that from happening in the first place. IMO, school systems are totally bureaucratic. Principals are made to feel powerless by the school board and superintendent. If principals had more power, they could do more to correct some of the issues that cause perfectly good people to drop out. And of course our legal system does nothing to help. All it does is leave principals feeling like they'll be sued no matter what they do.
