Quote Originally Posted by King Malcolm
No people in my school are staying on at school simply because of this money, they are merely milking the naivety of the system, and the left-handed Scottish Executive, who believe that the lower classes need money to stay at school. Also, they want everyone to go to university, but I fail to see the benefits in this.

Perhaps the people of the .Org could share their views on the scheme in the link above...
I think it's an excellent idea. It will help combat two different reasons why young people leave school prematurely:

1) Having never really had decent paying jobs before, they are lured by the seemingly high pay of full time, but (in the long term) dead-end jobs;

and

2) Their families may be putting pressure on them to start "contributing" to the household.

This may not solve the problems completely, but it certainly can't hurt.