Yuratuhl wrote:
No, high school kids shouldn't have to work. You should never have to work if you're not even legally a person yet. Children (which is what high school kids are) who want to work should certainly have that option, but it needs to be a choice not an imposition. Children who have to work because their family would starve without their labor input, or whose parents are such deadbeats that they put the burden on their kids before said kids can even vote, are a sign that this country is a disaster. Children are to be supported, not ridden. If you have kids, you take responsibility for at least eighteen fucking years, and you don't ask them to contribute because of your shitty decision to have them in the first place.
Your parents fucking robbed you. Full stop.
It's interesting the two philosophies we have here...Usdk, Meowth, and myself think being a high school kid with a job is a good thing - Tuhl believes it's unfair if parents tell their kids to "get a job"
I guess I should clarify...my parents taking 25% of my paycheck did nothing to help them -- it was pittance compared to everything they paid for. In fact, they used it mostly for my High School tuition...because I WANTED to go to a elite private school.
It wasn't them "robbing" me...they were right to have me get a job when I was 16. It's better to learn that nothing is free a whopping 2 years before I would be able to be drafted than to never have been taught those lessons.
Working fast food teaches you the value of a dollar...how hard it can be for some people to earn. My parents did me a favor saying "get a job"
On the flip side, I have some cousins who are doing okay...but they were never required to work in high school. Their parents provided them with EVERYTHING. They never learned how to manage money, or earn it, and now live far outside their means. They are in their mid-20s and still need to be supported by their parents.
I think painting it as child labor, or child slavery is a very skewed view. It's not as though my parents were trying to "get a return on their investment" or some absurd thing. They wanted me to learn how to work - and I'm better for it. More parents should have that approach...rather than coddling their children until they're 18 then dropping them into a world of college debt etc.