I have a 16 year old who finished yr10 last year...and doesnt want to be at school.

He wanted to travel (by long distance public transport)doing casual work such as farmhand (which in isolated rural communities licences arent needed)...but work has to be fulltime...this is completely unrealistic for both employers and school leavers. He wanted to do this until he was of eligible age to join the armed forces been a cadet for 3 years.

The course he wanted to do at TAFE now requires a HSC.

His other option for work was rouseabouting for a year (they travel as a team daily) but this employment is casual only.

At first I thought this law was the greatest thing since sliced bread ...now im completely opposed.

We live in a rural area (and we cannot relocate), kids at that age do not have a licence to drive, there is minimal employment in this town, our main town is half an hour away. we have other children in school and my husband and I both work, there is no public transport to the other town.

Might be ok for the big cities.

So now we have a rebelling little s%&t on our hands (yay for us) who is apparently now going to rebel against the system by deliberaltly failing (yay for us). This law is delaying the inevitable and keeping time wasters at school who are ruining for all the other kids who are serious about their HSC, ticking off the kids who had a plan which no longer is now valid and creating rebellers, and wasting school resources, teachers time....it goes on and on.

Im not happy about it all, once again dumbass decision by the goverment