Teenagers 'Work Can Have Downsides'

Laurence Steinberg discusses in his essay “Part-Time Employment Undermines Students’ Commitment to School” that students who have a part-time job do not do as well in school as other students. Working twenty or more hour shifts per week can interfere with a students grades and accomplishments in school. Steinberg states, “That the key issue is not whether a student works but how much time he or she devotes to the job”(472). I work a minimum of twenty-five hours a week making and that makes it difficult to complete my homework or study because I come home very tired and drained from my job.

Being a student in high school and having a job can teach students how to manage their time well. Time management is the most important when it comes to having a job in high school. Some portion of growing up is having a calendar and staying on top of it. By taking a job in high school, high schoolers can discover how it feels before they hit college. Thus, they might have the capacity to go up against more duties and credit hours, and experience the advantages of both!

Darolia (2013) places itself in a theoretical context which concerns the link between time use and student outcomes. Darolia notes that students have a fixed amount of time to accomplish various tasks (e.g., academic work, extracurriculars, and social activities). Working while in school further limits a student’s time constraint; as a consequence, work-study can injure the quality of those aforementioned activities. In order to ground his point, Darolia cites the work of Kalenkoski and Pabilonia (2010) which asserts that work has a negative impact on first-semester GPA for full and part-time college students. However, Darolia notes that work can positively affect student outcomes, because work encourages students to engage in better time-management practices. He does not directly support this in his paper; but, he cites a study which asserts a positive association between FWS and credit completion (another indicator of student

Working while in high school allows students to earn money and gain experience; it may also have a negative effect on grades and a student’s social life. Whether it is for preparation or pleasure, most working students save, spend, or support their families. Working during high school helps students become more self-reliant as they realize the benefits of working. Furthermore, working while in high school builds the student’s interest in the career they want to pursue. There are many benefits to a student working while in high school, but work needs to be balanced with a student’s social life and studies to be beneficial.

In high school, students are at the age where their priorities are all about them and their whole world involves them, themselves and maybe friends. To say the least, their priorities are not well established or correct if they have any. When the student gets a part-time job, like at a fast food restaurant it helps put their priorities straight. The students start to realize in order to make the money they need to pay for what they want, they need to make time adjustment and make real priorities. Students will learn that in order to have this job they will need to work during the weekends since school during the weekday. Working they will

As teenagers begin to mature, they crave the experiences of adulthood. They want to feel responsible for their own lives and be capable of providing their own needs. The majority of the teens start off by applying to jobs. Having a job is a big responsibility to maintain but as well a great experience for teenagers to be exposed to. Amitai Etzioni argues in his article, “Working at McDonald’s”, teenagers should not have a part-time job while attending school because it can lead them to a wrong path in their lives, especially having a fast-food job like McDonald's.

Expert Frank Bruni created a believable article stressing the idea that teens overstress over anything that regards to school, whether it be their grades, stride to follow in the expectations of others and themselves, being active, staying in sports, or attending every club a school may offer. I believe in this article due to its use of statistical evidence from other schools and colleges as well as Bruni’s personal experience. The article does have one major hitch that holds it back from becoming credible to most. This hitch is the lack of statistical evidence from a variety of other schools and backgrounds.

To begin, in today’s society American teens are going to school energized and are eager to learn usually in the beginning of the school year. Although, over time some teen's performance plummet in which some are said to be exhausted from being overworked, but others say differently. However, two different articles have gone in depth with the concept of kids and young teenagers being overstressed and exhausted from due to overwork. One of the article is from Frank Bruni titled “Today’s Exhausted Superkids” where he collaborated on teenagers to be overstressed and exhausted from school courses. Yet, he had focused on wealthy/ privileged families. On the other hand, Robert Pondiscio has written an article called “The Myth of the Overstressed American Teen” where Pondiscio argument is that Bruni’s claims are false and Pondiscio provides

Teenagers working under some conditions can be bad for them, but at other times it can be good be governed by the day-to-day schedule for the teenager working. When a teen is till at school, working will have an effect on their participation and attendance in a negative

“It is alarming that teen’s stress experience is so similar to that of adults,” states Norman B. Anderson in an interview with NBC News. In the same NBC News article, a survey shows that on average, teens are more stressed out than adults and that over their high school years, their stress levels increase drastically. “In order to break this cycle of stress and unhealthy behaviors as a nation, we need to provide teens with better support.” Anderson comments. With long hours, large workloads, deadlines, and little time off, having a job and going to school have an uncanny amount of

The grind never stops day in and day out. It’s early in the morning and you’re going to school, followed by work or sports or maybe even both. After a long day, you finally come home, eat dinner, shower, text some friends and check social media. Before you know it, it’s 10 at night. Teens are struggling to maintain their academics with balancing their passions and work. As a student athlete, I find it hard at times to maintain good grades and pursuit my passions.

Nationally the youth unemployment rate is double that of the national average. It is even worse for teens of color and teens from low-income houses. In 2014, 21 percent of African-American teens and 26 percent of Hispanic teens were able to find employment (Brookings Institute, 2016). However, research shows that being employed during high school can help with school persistence and graduation among economically disadvantaged youth, making it easier to transition into the workforce after graduation and helps reduce violent, risky, and adverse social behaviors. “The biggest driver of opportunity is whether youth, age 16-24, are employed, or in school,” said Mark Edwards, former executive director of Opportunity Nation (DMACC, 2014).

Some of the information that Daniel found applied to teenagers who worked 20 hours or more a

Might be surprised. They shouldn’t let teens work while they are in school. I agree that they need money for some things. I don’t like how we have to go to school and work. They should just let us teens go to school and not have to work during that time being.

Although, some teenagers face their problems. They plod along through school. Some of them get after-school or weekend jobs. They learn responsibility. Eventually, they enter adulthood and the work force. Successful, confident, and eager to work. They lead their lives using the knowledge they swallowed throughout their education and the power they gained. But not long after, they