Why aren't students more inquisitive?  

Yes this is true I have seen too many students doing this in my country as well wasting precious time and not going to school, when their parents think that this is where they are wake up to your child if I was the parent I would call into the school just to check up now and again that my children were actually attending school and were they are supposed to be.

This is the result of the wonderful system we have today after removing discipline. We have nothing to force those kids to go to school.

The reality of the world is that no kid, no teenager and no adult for that matter... will do something that they don't feel like doing... unless they are forced to do it.

And how do we force them to do it... by punishing them.
We force adults to do things by fining them... which hurt their finances. But kids don't have money... so we have to go back to basics.

Which explain why... we cannot give the same freedom to teenagers than what we give to adults. Adults can pay for their mistakes... but teenagers can't.

It is not the teenagers who need to get a life. It is the parents of those teenagers who need a wake up call. They made a mistake by abolishing discipline. Now they need to fix it by re-introducing it.

My sons school allowed seniors to go leave after they were done with their classes, as it turns our many seniors, at least in NY can get away with being in school a 1/2 day.

When I was in high school, I think I had 1 semester where I had a study hall every other day, how they can get away with a 1/2 day of school is beyond me.

Maybe we need tougher requirements to graduate.