The Measures for the Educational Right of Students who want to Drop out of School in the Compulsory
This dissertation is intended to derive a measure of guaranteeing the right to education of people in probation or exempt from compulsory education...
The Measures for the Educational Right of Students who want to Drop out of School in the Compulsory
This dissertation is intended to derive a measure of guaranteeing the right to education of people in probation or exempt from compulsory education for not being able to complete studies due to unavoidable reasons. Compulsory education is an instrument for policy that guarantees the right to education for citizens and makes the government fulfill an obligation of education by providing the least and also elementary education for the entire nation regardless of social background or economical status. As for a legal ground, the 2nd article in the 31st provision from constitution represents a clause that all the citizens are obligated to provide at least elementary education and also an academic curriculum that the law specifies for their children. The 8th provision in the Fundamentals of Education Act has specified a compulsory education as six years of elementary education and three years of secondary education. In addition, the 13th provision in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act has specified an obligation of parents to send their children to school in a certain age.
As shown above, not all the children fulfill a course of education the law specifies even if a compulsory education is specifically defined by the law.
The first provision in the constitution has specified a clause that "all the citizens have a right to be equally educated depending on ability." Hereupon, all the citizen are eligible to have a proper level of education depending on the ability. If there are students that could not complete a course of compulsory education regardless of the reason, the government is obligated to provide an appropriate and necessary education for them and to guarantee for the freedom of education not to be violated.
Compulsory education is established for an objective that all the citizens are to receive minimum education in order to realize a right to education. However, it is now an issue that current law might serve as an obstacle for providing superior education to students.
It is not desired to equate compulsory education specified in the constitution with an obligation for parents to send their children to school in a certain age according to Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the Fundamentals of Education Act. Hereupon, alternative schools, home-schooling, and preparatory schools have been suggested as a measure of guaranteeing the right of compulsory education for students that were not able to complete a current course of study in elementary and middle school.
In order to maintain a stable legal status of aforementioned measures while according with the purpose of constitution, it has been suggested that organization of regulations for establishing and operating alternative schools to be actively accepted, addition of exceptional clauses on the obligation of parents to send their children to school in a certain age from Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the Fundamentals of Education Act, and preparation of a single law for alternative schools and home-schooling are required.