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U.S. youngsters aged 14 to 18 who work at retail and service jobs during the school year put in an average of 16 hours a week, often at jobs that are dangerous and unsupervised, a study said on Monday.

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  • Avg rating: (+0/-0 0)Soren85
    Soren85
    March 6, 2007, 9:41 a.m.

    This makes you wonder how involved the parents are in their teens life.

    • Avg rating: (+0/-0 0)sophie1
      sophie1
      March 6, 2007, 2:20 p.m.

      I teach biology in a large urban high school. In my opinion, the recent vote to raise the minimum wage will only make the situation worse. The vast majority of minimum-wage workers are teens who work to pay for car insurance or buy prom tickets. The way they see it a raise in the minimum wage is further proof they don't need to finish school. Really. Teens are not famous for thinking ahead very clearly.

      My proposal is a two-tiered minimum wage: a lower rate for anyone under 21 who has not completed high school and a higher rate for anyone who is over 21 OR who has completed high school. At the very least, it would put an immediate dollar value on completing school.

      What do you guys think?

      • Avg rating: (+0/-0 0)getreal1
        getreal1
        March 6, 2007, 3:16 p.m.

        Education is not what it use to be. They cut subject time by cutting subject material in half in order to create more knowledge time and money in the colleges. In the beginning of America education was definitely for the very wealthy. Psychology we taught the many different minds to logic. Sociology, we learn the many social classes. That and more has been striped of the public reach. Free education knowledge has been stretched out little bit by little bit through the last 40 years. It can't all be blamed on the parents. Man-kind abuses to much liberty, the vices of liberty. Jobs especially mim wage are very hard to find for high school students.

        • Avg rating: (+0/-0 0)rumple4skin
          rumple4skin
          March 6, 2007, 4:38 p.m.

          A two-tier wage sounds like a plan. I will also suggest that these employers be made to contribute a portion of corporate profits to the respective boards of education these children represent. This could finance after-school, Saturday, or Summer school projects, finance programs that have been cut in recent years (music, art) and in general allow these employers to become good corporate citizens.

          • Avg rating: (+0/-0 0)getreal1
            getreal1
            March 7, 2007, 3:02 a.m.

            I say give them back a real curriculum and when a student moves from one state to another the grades and credits should be accepted. We have too many high school drop outs because of that. I work with one of those very kids now. She has straight A's and B's. She moved up north and every thing she had taken in the south was no good and she was told to start over. She had six months to go on graduation. Came back and was told by the school here that she would have to take the whole year over to graduate.

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