It's nice to see someone still has a spine.
this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2025
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good, that mindset is crazy. How is someone supposed to be able to get up at 5/6 AM, go to school, get out around 2/3Pm, work until 9 and then somehow also be able to work on homework/projects while not sacrificing sleep, just to do it the next day.
for perspective even working until 7PM which is it's current setup only gives a 10 hour window between shifts so you better hope homework and studying doesn't take more than an hour or so.
When the leading argument for the change is "this will help current workforce needs" it's clear student's aren't the intended benefactor here. It's sacrificing future employee skills for short term benefits.
they don't want children to go to school. they want uneducated population, since educated doesn't vote red
But short term benefit make line go up. Line go up good.
Why are the kids working
From what I remember, the bill's author said something like "children are helping support the household income, and this will let them do that more" and it's like, they're so close to finding the real problem (families can't get by even on 2 incomes now), but instead of addressing that problem they just go "better exploit children of desperate families even more!"
They're doing this shit in Arkansas and it's pretty clear they want young folks skipping college, getting knocked up at 17, back in the yoke with a new little worker on the way. No time to think about anything but what you're fed, always hungry and always grinding.
Because kids are easier to bullshiat into working around toxic chemicals and dangerous machines that can maim or kill them.
Bootstraps won't pull themselves!
Gov. DeWine, you fool! Everyone knows the children yearn for titles such as Retail Sales Associate or Sandwich Artist. /s