Comments on: Chambered http://www.eduwonk.com/2008/01/chambered.html Education News, Analysis, and Commentary Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:36:30 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: dt http://www.eduwonk.com/2008/01/chambered.html/comment-page-1#comment-275 dt Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:54:00 +0000 http://www.eduwonk.com/wordpress/2008/01/chambered.html#comment-275 Great observation. The big, big majority of my students work over 30 hours a week. Many work more than 40 hours.<br/><br/>Many of my kids have to help support their families. But they often are sentencing themselves to a life-time of poverty because they immediately flunk out of college or community college. These kids are trying to do the right thing but they are making a tragic mistake. Our rich nation doesn't need to depend upon the kindness, and vulnerablity, of poor teenagers.<br/><br/>John Thompson Great observation. The big, big majority of my students work over 30 hours a week. Many work more than 40 hours.

Many of my kids have to help support their families. But they often are sentencing themselves to a life-time of poverty because they immediately flunk out of college or community college. These kids are trying to do the right thing but they are making a tragic mistake. Our rich nation doesn’t need to depend upon the kindness, and vulnerablity, of poor teenagers.

John Thompson

]]> By: JonA http://www.eduwonk.com/2008/01/chambered.html/comment-page-1#comment-273 JonA Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:27:00 +0000 http://www.eduwonk.com/wordpress/2008/01/chambered.html#comment-273 Hopefully the CoC will include in its plan a call for increased funding for the enforcement of youth employment laws. Somehow, though, I doubt it. Hopefully the CoC will include in its plan a call for increased funding for the enforcement of youth employment laws. Somehow, though, I doubt it.

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