Why doesn’t raising the minimum age to leave school always lead to higher graduation rates? Cite evidence in the text.

Raising the minimum age to leave school has been suggested as a policy that would lead to higher graduation rates. However, there is evidence that shows that this might not necessarily be the case. Raising the minimum age does not necessarily lead to higher graduation rates. This view ignores the fact that there is a variety of reasons why someone might leave school. Students who leave school might do so because they need to work. Some of them might leave school because they find the information they are learning to be irrelevant. Moreover, some others might feel they have fallen too far behind. None of these issues would be solved by raising the minimum age to leave school.

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