<p>The President also wants states to require students to stay in school until they graduate or age 18. Sounds like a fine idea when you envision these students hunched over their desks learning rather than as drop-outs roaming the streets unemployed. But it’s a terrible idea when you consider that your kid and mine are going to have their education impacted by the presence of more derelicts, gang members, drug pushers, and general trouble-makers who don’t want to be in high school. And forget about the learning bit. They’ll just get warehoused at taxpayer expense in those alternative school programs where they currently put the incorrigible kids they can’t control.</p>