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Newt’s Child Labor Laws
John Darkow, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri
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3 Responses to “Newt’s Child Labor Laws”
I’m no fan Mr. Gingrich, but this is old. I went to a private (Catholic) school for two years. The students whose parents couldn’t afford full tuition would do most of the janitor work after school. It wasn’t that hard and it wasn’t dangerous.
The hard jobs were saved for kids in detention.
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Why are there Catholic schools? What point is it to have a Catholic school if not to promote Catholicism in some manor…and attendees are expected to pay for it?
Children should be doing their homework or other personal development activity after school, not working to pay for their grammar school.
Public Schools have the potential to be the actual equity device in the term “equal opportunity”, provided they receive the PROPPER funding. It does not in this country. That fact in itself disqualifies the United States as any kind of a “light upon any hill” that Republicans fantasize about.
Simple, Allen, for the same reason that I went there despite the fact that I’m not Catholic. My hometown school had been ruined by a stupid federal law that mandated larger classrooms (long story). So, my dad went looking at surrounding schools, which at the time meant paying out-of-district tuition for another public school.
The Catholic school had an excellent reputation, which was matched by only one public school in the area. The tuition, however, was about 1/5th of any of the schools around it. My dad paid full tuition, so I wasn’t one of those doing the work, but I had to wait on my ride home for about an hour, so I talked with them while they did their work.
They didn’t seem to be suffering in any way whatsoever. I’m sorry, but you’re trying to save kids that don’t need it. I also learned a lot about how a school can do its job much better and cheaper when the layers of bureaucrats aren’t siphoning off their shares of the loot while binding up the teachers and staff with paperwork and rules.