In my most totalitarian moments, I think kids that don’t make a certain GPA, cut up in class, ditch class, and so forth should be bussed out to the woods and made to thin forests all summer.
Hard labor has a way of teaching a kid what’s up, and it’s better than a summer of hanging out with hood rats, making babies, smoking weed, and drinking cough syrup.
It was growing up in BFE (the ‘country’) that put me straight. Knowing I didn’t have mass-trasit, had to pay for the car/insurance/gas/maint./etc....And then being in MD, under 25; talk about a raping but to make a few $$$
Sorry, by ‘my solution’ would mitigate the problems of the ‘slackers’. A few uppity moments w/ the payment up front (now forfeited as they get tossed); parents WILL make sure they fall in line and LEARN.
Course, I guess there is a place for ditch diggers still...