The Importance Of Working In High School

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.

In the American culture is normal for most high school students to have part time jobs. On the other hand, high schoolers are not expected to work. There are many reasons for that, but one of them is that it

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

Nowadays 80% of college students work at least a part time job while pursuing their studies. For some working while in school is a necessity, for others its simply a desire. No matter the reason there is an ongoing debate about whether or not students should hold a job while in school. Some say that we shouldn’t because it will affect our grades and the amount of focus we pay to our studies. Those in favor of working students say that it gives valuable real world experience and teaches money management. Both sides make valid points

In this essay I will explain the causes and effects of why a high school student should or should not have a job during high school. Whether they should have a job while being in school or if they should not. Maybe they can’t focus on school so they should probably quit if they have one. They might need time for school work after school they should just focus on school.

If possible most high school students get a job whether that’s during the summer or even throughout the school year. Similarly, I had been looking for a job for some time as well. Fortunately, I had found some temporary work during the summer but decided that my love for learning and education was far more important. Then during the beginning of this sophomore year, I meet a gentleman through school who had sent his sons through a college program while they were still in high school. He proposed the idea that I should look at my early college career as an investment. His reasoning behind going to school instead of working was that each year completed would mean another full year in the workforce creating an income that is more than three times

In 2002 a study of over 2,700 adolescents found that working teenagers had a better work maturity. This leads to better time management skills that would help with going to school and working a part-time job, having a planner to write down the hours you’re working will help coordinate the time you need for studying and doing homework.

Census report determined that 71% of the nation’s 19.7 million college undergraduates were working in 2011 and of that number, one in five undergrads were working at least 35 hours a week year-round. In addition, the author stated students attempting to balance school, work and family /social obligations should evaluate the commitments in their life and discuss realistic goals with friends and family members to ensure that they have and time needed to maximize their success recommends Becky Takea-Tinker, president of Colorado State University–Global Campus in

Students would have a higher success rate if they could focus on their studies opposed to focusing how they are going to pay for them. Students who have to work and go to post-secondary education are less focused on their education compared to those who do not have to work. On average, a student should get between eight and nine hours of sleep which is not possible most of the time. If students have to go to school for approximately five hours per day, do one to four hours of homework, and sleep eight-nine hours that all equals to 14-18 hours of their day. How is a student possibly able to work six to eight hours on top of that? Some will say “Work and school combined makes for a more responsible student due to the extra tasks which forces them to use time management appropriately.” Technically yes, however the human body is not built to deal with so many tasks at once. Work can consume up to 40 hours of additional time that a student could use for either extra assignment time or even extra sleep.

A working Student has become sort of a"trend" among students around the United States. But lets be honest not a desirable trend, we all want to be a part of . We live in a society where we “Earn and Learn.” We have to keep up with constant tuition increases to afford further educations, keeping in mind many of us spend more time working than learning. We can have many factors why we work while we are in school. one of the major reasons is because we are un financially stable. Since almost each student has only so “much” time and energy in their work/school schedule. Having to work around a school calendar can be pretty complicated. Which in the long run it affects their performance at San Diego State University or any other university. As

This statement was made in Etzioni’s study done in 1984. Working these types of jobs as a teenager is a challenging thing to be able to accomplish when you are a full-time student. It’s extremely hard and very stressful to do. It takes a lot out of you having to work those late-night shifts. Coming home from work at 11 and then having to do your homework for the night causes you not to be able to get into bed until 12 or 1 o’clock. This also causes the student to be less involved in extracurricular activities. The cause being, “I have to work after school.” Working while in school can take a huge toll on a student when it comes to not being able to participate in extracurricular activities. I learned this the hard

1. Generally the study found that the poorest communities do not work, they feel this is because of lack of employment opportunities in those communities. If they do work their jobs are described in “other” activities. Upper class does work but it tends to be just summer jobs or jobs that do not interfere with school. These teens tend to have seasonal jobs like lifeguard or camp counselor. Upper middle class students might have jobs as a file clerk or receptionist. Middle class teens seem to work the most; through the whole school year. They tend to have jobs at fast-food restaurants. Some teens begin in tenth grade to work but by twelfth grade most are working at some point in the year.

Despite their efforts, the pressure to balance work and school is just too much for many working students.

A job could cause the students grades to drop by not having a good amount of time to study and do homework. The student could end up spending their money foolishly and not learning how to spend wisely and save money. By working the student could also have less time to be social with their own friends and family. Working may not allow them to explore extra after school activities such as sports, debate teams and so on. Working as a high school student may also instill the ideal that the student does not need to finish school, giving the mindset why sit in a class and have no money when I can go and work get paid and do what I want. With a student working and having their own money on a regular bases could possible open them up to fake friends who only have something to do with them due to them having money in turn getting used by a fake friend. A working student could possibly lose a lot of sleep due to having to do their homework at late night and last minute to keep their grades up.

Many students in high school have some sort of job that they do. Whether it is just doing the chores at home or working a part time job at a business, students do some type of work. But the question stands on if that work should be just house chores or a part time job. Some say that working in high school causes stress, cuts their childhood short, and is a distraction from academics. Others say that working while in high school will help gain interpersonal and communication skills, develop a work ethic, learn how to deal with their own money, and time management. I believe that students in high school should have some type of job or responsibility.