The End of Child Labor Laws?
Mar. 13th, 2011 12:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ericadawn16If we are to have a country resembling a Dickens novel, there is one big thing standing in the way:
Child Labor Laws
But Jane Cunningham of Missouri is working on that:
Cunningham defended the deletion of these hour requirements, saying that children's ability to negotiate their own work schedule is an important part of teaching responsibility, which she said could foster higher academic performance.
Except according to the American Educational Research Journal who published a thorough study in 2000 which concluded:
We find no evidence that high school employment has either short- or long-term effects on grades in academic courses or that grades in these courses influence employment activities. Pre-existing differences between more and less intensively employed students fully account for the association between employment intensity and grades in academic courses.
Read more about Cunningham here:
http://ozarksfirst.com/fulltext?nxd_id=406876
The study is here but requires a subscription:
http://www.jstor.org/pss/1163498
As my mom pointed out...they can't even have enough jobs for the adults, how are you going to have them for children?
Or they'll make us compete with children/minors who don't need and/or won't demand a living wage as adults do...
Child Labor Laws
But Jane Cunningham of Missouri is working on that:
Cunningham defended the deletion of these hour requirements, saying that children's ability to negotiate their own work schedule is an important part of teaching responsibility, which she said could foster higher academic performance.
Except according to the American Educational Research Journal who published a thorough study in 2000 which concluded:
We find no evidence that high school employment has either short- or long-term effects on grades in academic courses or that grades in these courses influence employment activities. Pre-existing differences between more and less intensively employed students fully account for the association between employment intensity and grades in academic courses.
Read more about Cunningham here:
http://ozarksfirst.com/fulltext?nxd_id=406876
The study is here but requires a subscription:
http://www.jstor.org/pss/1163498
As my mom pointed out...they can't even have enough jobs for the adults, how are you going to have them for children?
Or they'll make us compete with children/minors who don't need and/or won't demand a living wage as adults do...
