How is that whole filthy “Great Society” thing working out?
Of course, the fulcrum of the change was having child labor protections apply to teenagers. As though people fourteen through seventeen needed to be saved from the concept of earning what they get.
If people aren’t working during the years they learn the easiest then a work ethic isn’t one of the things they learn. This was pointed out in the nineteen sixties, and the unmitigated idiots who disregarded this immutable reality in favor of merely fostering higher academic averages (as if the two were mutually exclusive) brought their progeny to the point where we are now.
Sloth is almost as damaging as drugs, and is perhaps as difficult to cast off.
Yep...I agree....I think kids should be able to fast forward thru their secondary education, completing it at , oh, 14, 15, 16...and then “get a life” (work) or go on to further education. And they should NOT be eligible for Govt bennies of any kind till past 21, and then only if incapacitated.