While enough Kentucky school districts have now approved a minimum dropout age of 18 to make this mandatory in a couple of years for all school districts, there is plenty of quiet concern that this policy change may not really work so well.

Among the doubters is Jefferson County Board of Education member Linda Duncan, who lays out her concerns in this opinion piece:

Raising Kentucky's Dropout Age | Linda Duncan: 'Nagging thoughts' about change.

Among other issues, Duncan raises a new point: will the change mostly just produce misleading statistics that provide an image of dropout figures being reduced while many students still wind up missing before graduation?