This is about the U.S. based on the article and you are talking about how school works in a completely different country. In the U.S., middle school is a step between elementary and high school for kids age 12-14 who are too mature for elementary school but not mature enough to be treated with real responsibility yet.
Expecting a child, and they are children, to go out and earn a living at 14 is ridiculous. Especially when it will be a horrible entry-level low-skill miserable job that will just make them unhappy.
“It didn’t do me any harm” is not a reason to do something. And I would say that you have no idea how it harmed your development. People make that claim about getting beaten as kids too.
Given that I work in benefits and taxation and I see how bad some people are with their money and budgeting as they weren’t forced to do so at an early age, of say it was for the best.
I think the practical application of actually having money in your pocket and having to manage it is better than anything we can teach theoretically. I’m not saying have them doing 40 hour weeks, but a few hours of a weekend won’t hurt them.
No child abandonment is illegal. Surrendering your child is legal if done a certain amount of time after birth. Thanks for admitting you know nothing about these laws though.
What? It’s only two years off finishing senior school and going off to college/sixth form.
This is about the U.S. based on the article and you are talking about how school works in a completely different country. In the U.S., middle school is a step between elementary and high school for kids age 12-14 who are too mature for elementary school but not mature enough to be treated with real responsibility yet.
Expecting a child, and they are children, to go out and earn a living at 14 is ridiculous. Especially when it will be a horrible entry-level low-skill miserable job that will just make them unhappy.
Bollox, I was working from about 13 to put some dough in my pocket as my parents weren’t exactly rich. Didn’t do me any harm.
“It didn’t do me any harm” is not a reason to do something. And I would say that you have no idea how it harmed your development. People make that claim about getting beaten as kids too.
Given that I work in benefits and taxation and I see how bad some people are with their money and budgeting as they weren’t forced to do so at an early age, of say it was for the best.
So working at 13 years old guarantees you will be good with your money? Or not working at 13 years old guarantees you won’t?
Because it would seem to me that teaching children financial literacy would be a better plan than allowing corporations to benefit from child labor.
I think the practical application of actually having money in your pocket and having to manage it is better than anything we can teach theoretically. I’m not saying have them doing 40 hour weeks, but a few hours of a weekend won’t hurt them.
Unless those few hours of a weekend are serving drunk men as a teenage girl, you mean. Then there’s a huge amount of potential for hurt.
Yeah, I said in my very first post they probably shouldn’t be working in bars. My disagreement was that they shouldn’t be working at all.
Well you didn’t learn to spell “bollocks” for starters.
I was abandoned by my parents, didn’t do me any harm. Guess child abandonment should be legal according to your logic.
I mean, it is right? Kids get taken into care all the time.
No child abandonment is illegal. Surrendering your child is legal if done a certain amount of time after birth. Thanks for admitting you know nothing about these laws though.
So you will now quite happily send your 14 yr old daughter to go stand pulling pints in amongst a group of drunken men?
Read the comment again, I said they probably shouldn’t be working in pubs, but I’m not against 14 year olds working at all.