I'm ambivalent on the matter too. It's just another situation where one shoe doesn't fit all. I had a yr.8 or 9 student who was near the top of the class. As soon as i started checking his book more and pressing him on homework he got shirty and drifted downwards. We made a private deal, that i stop pushing him to do his hw and he gets back up to say top three. He did. And not pushing him made my job easier. Win-win.
Even though many teachers are not capable of (or open to) that flexibility, it's a great tool that can work with one child. Problem with the working young, and dangers balanced with schoolwork and employers having trouble getting staff is that you have a smorgasbord of competing and conflicting interests.
Happy mediums and flexibility are often the best goal.
Bit's from an earlier post which were meant to suggest by equivocation on the issue. as you:
Some believe the kids are better schooling half-day and working half-day. Others say school is better full time. Noted now a number of states are trying four day weeks to attack their teacher shortage. Many employers have difficulty getting staff. Republican states are attacking child labor laws. Children in Guatemala see the only families getting along in Guatemala (especially after covid) are those getting remittances from the USA. Children want to help their families. Do you blame the parents of the children arriving at the border for sending their children to get to enable getting remittances from the US? Do you blame the Guatemalan government for the situation? [...] At the same time, there had begun a gradual shift of focus to a new issue—inadequate opportunities for youth employment—and the related question of delinquency. In May 1961, for example, some 500 men and women met in Washington, DC, "to discuss [this] ... serious but little known national problem." The summary report of the conference observed that
Again and again in the past decade, juvenile delinquency and the outbreaks of youthful street gangs have made headlines. The fact that large numbers of our youth, 16 to 21 years of age, are out of school and unemployed, significant as it may be in terms of delinquency, has far greater significance in terms of what changes are taking place in our society....
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