Yes - the school leaving age in pre-WW2 was about 13 to 14 - in the 1950s this was changed to 15 and it's now 16 but there are plans to keep kids in school until age 18, which is nuts, esp in light of the fact that the voting age may be lowered to 16.
History of the school leaving age explained.
http://www.historyextra.com/feature/scho...
Already 16 year olds are allowed to vote in Scotland, how long before the English demand the same?
Not long I suspect.
A daft country we live in - age 16 you can shag, and get married, but you cannot smoke or drink or own a house. For that you've got to wait until you are 18. Imagine a situation whee a couple aged 16 get married and are then bossed about by both sets of parents, which is their right. Nuts I call it.
I left school in 1957 and joined the British Army at age 15.
Back then I knew men who had fought in WW-One at age 14 and 15 - hard to believe but true.
https://encrypted.google.com/#q=under+ag...
God bless em all, every one.
Yes, my parents left school at 14 in the early/mid-1930s. The school leaving age was raised to 15 in 1947 and 16 in the early 1970s (just before my time).
Almost certainly, as the school leaving age was 14. It was raised to 15 in 1947 through the Education Act 1944.
The school leaving age in the 1940's was 14,so unless she was a middle class girl and taking exams for college she would be working!
Leaving school age then was 14 yrs old, so she would have been working for 3 yrs by 17yrs old, no doubt in a munitions factory
She could have left school but there is a chance she could still be at school.Depends a lot on her background and how intelligent she is.However, in the early 1940s Britain was a t war therefore it is likely she would be working as most men were in the armed forces,
I started work in 1962 at 15.
Unless she was middle or upper class and in private education (public school) then she would probably have left school at 14 and at work.
Yes
Yes, in the 1940's you could leave school at 15
