What would happen if colleges overtly recruited kids who worked paid jobs.

[Anonymous]

This is just Fox News rambling nonsense about minimum wage and promoting child labor to increase corporate profits. Akansas and Florida recently passed anti-education child labor laws to keep people impoverished.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Exactly. We discounted elitist schools that do not value jobs or even consider them on the application.

Which schools do/don't?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder what would happen if colleges came right out and said, volunteering is great and having a passion is important, but working a min wage job brings it's own set of skills.

Which is true.

And colleges asked for a form that your boss from McDonalds to fill out that was simple and became standard. How many hours they worked would be enough for me. Reference better. Maybe a W2 solves this.

Also, as a country, I think our min wage is messed up bcs of these fast food jobs. We all get paying 15/hr makes burgers cost more.

Maybe we could have a teen wage for 15-17 year olds that's 10/hr.

Anyone who works with people in their 20s knows that young people could learn a lot by working a public facing job before they get into the work force. Kids are lacking some basic skills iMO

If the top 100 colleges said they wanted to see it and word got out they don't mean working in mom's law firm, I'd love to see what would happen.

Fun fact: If you get suspended from Harvard for cheating on tests, you have to show 6months of paid work before you can return to school, and they specifically call out "family situations" as unacceptable work.

[Anonymous]

Many places already have a lower teen minimum wage. But it’s not great for adults to get pushed out of these jobs. You see a lot of poor working parents and other adults trying to support themselves flipping those burgers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get OP that cheap burger.

actually, fast food and dish washing jobs is one of the central arguments to keeping min wage low in some states.

we have "lower pay for same work" already .. all over. It's just called being a woman.

AND we have made exceptions before based on age. You can do seasonal agricultural work when you're 14 without working papers. I grew up in Illinois, we all did that as soon as we turned 14.

I'd like to see it. Bonus points if you wait tables. So many skills flow from that

+1 fellow Midwesterner who grew up working in the fields. And waiting tables.

We now have a top 1% income and our teenager works at Chick fil A. My hustle came from working these types of jobs.

[Anonymous]

A lot of teens who are working at are actually working because their families need the money. Why should they have to suffer to help others get into college?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is just Fox News rambling nonsense about minimum wage and promoting child labor to increase corporate profits. Akansas and Florida recently passed anti-education child labor laws to keep people impoverished.

Do you blame everything on Fox News?

[Anonymous]

Supposedly, colleges do value this. For the obvious reasons of learning responsibility and general work ethic.

I have not seen it help much myself.

[Anonymous]

So I worked all through high school — and I was still an immature idiot, even though I was really good at my job. I failed out of BU my freshman year. LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A lot of teens who are working at are actually working because their families need the money. Why should they have to suffer to help others get into college?

how would they suffer. we have a 3% unemployment rate. these jobs are going empty and these working kids are working double bcs shifts aren't filled.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Supposedly, colleges do value this. For the obvious reasons of learning responsibility and general work ethic.

I have not seen it help much myself.

I have't seen this at all. And we know kids who worked year round and had great grades but lackluster ECs (bcs: job) and they were not rewarded.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Food service is a way to expose young teens to elicit drug use, one less hurdle to confront in college.

Very true. When my 15 yr old got a job at a fast-food place, most of the 18-25 yr olds who worked there used drugs heavily outside of work, a few showed up at work high or used in the work bathroom, and one dealt out of the drive-thru.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why should a teen do the same work and get paid less? Unless it involves a tuition break from the university that sounds like a bad deal for teens.

In Maryland, employers can pay teens only 85% of the state minimum, so it's already happening.

Also, per the OP, my 17yo is paid $17/hr in DC and would not be interested in a $10 job.

[Anonymous]

LINK https://www.peoples-law.org/wage-laws#:~:text=Employees%20under%2018%20%2D%20Employers%20can,of%20the%20state%20minimum%20wage.&text=Tipped%20Employees%20%2D%20Employers%20may%20pay,in%20most%20of%20the%20state.

[Anonymous]

I wonder if OP has a high school age kid?
A while back there was someone who wanted a government requirement for all young people to take two years of required service doing things like being a nanny for families with young kid.
It's like there is some rando poster who is obsessed with exploiting young people for free/cheap labor.