>I was a bus boy and a janitor when I was in High School. I couldn't get those jobs today. When my son is ready for his first entry level job, where he is supposed to build on his work ethic and start learning work skills, those jobs simply won't be available to him.<
Teenagers who are willing to work can still find employment.The Chic-Fillets of the world would much prefer to hire a smart well spoken teenager than somone who can not speak or comprehend Englis.
The problem has been the economy the last few summers has not provided advanced employment for college students.This has driven them into competing with the younger workers for the entry level jobs.
At the grocery store where I shopped yesterday, the bagger was saying to the cashier that he wanted to be a cashier. She said you are too young. You have to be sixteen. Neither one of these employees was speaking Spanish. There ARE jobs that American high school kids can do. In some public high schools Many of the juniors and seniors go to jobs after school. The unavailability of jobs has become some sort of accepted wisdom, but very little first hand proof have I read anywhere.
At the grocery store where I shopped yesterday, the bagger was saying to the cashier that he wanted to be a cashier. She said you are too young. You have to be sixteen. Neither one of these employees was speaking Spanish. There ARE jobs that American high school kids can do. In some public high schools Many of the juniors and seniors go to jobs after school. The unavailability of jobs has become some sort of accepted wisdom, but very little first hand proof have I read anywhere.
Yup. My daughter's on her second job.
It is a lot more difficult that it was when I was a kid, but it is doable.