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[–]worm 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'd support this unironically.

The fundamental failing of the public school system is that it doesn't equip kids for a job. If you're a poor kid who's in a poor district with shit schools, and you have to stay in a shit school learning nothing for 16 years, then that doesn't really set you up for a good life.

Until the standards of education are such that no kid would ever be better off working than staying in school, I don't support a blanket ban on child labour.

[–]sawboss 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Until the standards of education are such that no kid would ever be better off working than staying in school, I don't support a blanket ban on child labour.

Exactly. If you can't teach kids the three Rs by the time they're in sixth grade, you never will. How I know this is a problem is from college. They screen everyone for basic three Rs ability, and put them in classes to teach them what they didn't learn from High School.