Every year in Florida, thousands of kids drop out of school.
Under a newly proposed bill the age to legally drop out of school would go up from 16 to 18 years old.
The goal is to take away an easy way out, which many high school students say has become way too popular.
A student said it's common because many students don't like work, especially doing it for free.
The bill's backers argue doing work for free in school is critical if you want to work for money later in life.
Here in Florida, only around 2 percent of high school students choose to drop out.
That's certainly not a big number, but it can have an exponential impact on society.
The less self-sufficient dropouts are the more help they'll need from the government.
Nationwide, studies show high school dropouts are costing taxpayers $50 billion a year.
It's a figure Democratic Representative Alan Williams says could be cut dramatically if only more students were forced to stay in school.
“The more we can do to keep them in school, the more we can do to give them a fighting chance at a real life after high school and hopefully propel them into one of our great state universities or community colleges, the better we are as a state,” said Williams.
Some high school students say the bill doesn’t go far enough.
They should make it where you can't drop out of high school at all.
That's an idea lawmakers might just want to drop in to their drop out bill.