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42 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker 11 Jun \ parent \ on: Who is unschooled Education
the problem is that in our current setup, opting out of high school usually means dicking around. But if the counterfactual is that you'd enter the workforce with a full time job, that might actually turn out better for some people
Part of the reform bundle, then, would have to be removing labor restrictions on teenagers, because right now they aren't allowed to work full time.
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I'm open to that.
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+1
I've often wondered why they don't do this in Canada instead of allowing temp. foreign workers to come in in droves. Many of them work 8 months of the year and send most their money back home, or return home to spend it there.
It seems there'd be a lot of benefits, not only to the local economy but also for the kids.
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