How do you discipline the unwilling?

The latest wheeze to emanate from this desperate government is the idea for compulsory education to continue until a young person is 18.

The fact that they expect resistance is shown from their intention to punish any nonconformists firstly with large fines which they may be ill able to afford, and then with ASBOs (- yes, that's right make them antisocial!), and finally put them on the criminal register for life to make getting a job more difficult.

If they are determined the bring in this draconian social engineering, why don't they withhold benefits and/or offer benefits in the way they have bribed poorer students to stay on for the sixth form?

The most worrying thing is how they propose to maintain discipline, given that many youngsters are reluctant, but can at least see an end when they are 16, and given also that there is already disruption in schools now with head teachers hampered by not being able to exclude trouble makers. Some children already have their education up to 16 disrupted by the attitudes of class members. Now, it seems, many children are likely to suffer from fairly constant disruption until they are 18!