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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Again, yet another example of how immigration policy is really only in place to help businesses keep costs down.  Whether it's illegal immigration or programs like this.[/quote]

+ a million. [b]People ask why teenagers aren't lifeguards anymore.[/b] I get that its because there aren't enough teenagers available to work in the summer, but I also think their wages haven't changed at all since I was probably a lifeguard, it was very good money when I was a teen, enough to support all the fun things I wanted to do during the year. Now, I bet you could $2000 even if you worked all summer. It's not worth it for teens![/quote]

I'm not sure this is the only reason teenagers aren't lifeguards.  IRL and on here, all I hear from parents of teens is that they don't want their teens to work part-time jobs.  The perception seems to be that it's a distraction from focusing on college.  And the parents seem to think working won't add anything to their college applications.  So they don't see the point of their teen working for minimum wage when they have money.

Personally, I think part-time jobs are good for teens.  But I don't think that is the prevailing view.

So it isn't Europeans keeping American teens from working summer jobs; it's American parents.[/quote]

This is such nonsense.  (not that you're espousing it)  I'm the PP whose HHI is over $700k--they don't "need" the money, in that sense.  But they need to understand how much work it requires to earn a living, to make a paycheck, how long it takes to make $20 that you blow in a heartbeat at a restaurant.  Those are life lessons, and help them with an appreciation for many jobs that people have on which they are trying to support familiies.  That's much more important than yet another SAT prep course.  My boys also do that.  They play sports at a very high level.  They do all the things you hear about here on DCUM that are expected of kids in their position, but I.will.not.rear another generation of entitled spoiled brats in a bubble.[/quote]

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