| To
reduce spending on public schooling. |
To
give parents who want their children to lend a hand financially, the legal
opportunity to withdraw their children from school and to launch them into
the market place. |
| To
give the opportunity for children who do not want to attend school any
longer (and who often disrupt lessons) not to attend legally. |
To
give teachers some respite from those disruptive pupils who would opt to
leave school at 13. |
| To
use the resources saved from decreasing the school populations to better
educate those students who want to invest further in their own education. |
To
decrease the number of teachers due to a decrease in pupil population. |
| To
satisfy the business community's need for fresh and cheap labour. |
To
lead the way to more education at the workplace rather than at schools. |
| To
devolve the responsibility of education from the state to other agencies. |
To
win the votes of those parents who find compulsory schooling a burden. |
| To be
able to merge schools and pull down vacant schools for new development or
new and more modern schools |
To
reduce the number of students who would pursue tertiary education, due to
the lack of resources in this area. |
