Shayla Berry Ms. Krick English 8 12 March 2024 Teen jobs Have you ever thought about whether your teenager should have a job or not? Teenagers who have jobs have a less likely chance of getting arrested. Teenager’s should all have jobs to support themselves and to improve their skills for the future to come. In the story “The Best Extracurricular May Be An After-School Job” by Pamela Paul, she writes about how if you work as a teen it helps improve and build your skills. Pamela explains that the workforce has increased significantly since the 2010’s. Pamela states “The share in the workforce has risen from a low of roughly a quarter in 2010 to about a third of older teens holding down a job of one kind or another since the pandemic” (Paul 3).
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Admittedly, teenagers' jobs can cause problems for them in the upcoming future. In the story “Teenager’s Work Can Have Downsides” by Jerald G. Bachman, he agrees that teens shouldn’t have part-time jobs and talks about all the downsides of teenagers having jobs. Bachman explains that researchers have found that kids in school have poorer grades. Bachman states “Over the years we and other researchers have consistently found that high schoolers who work long hours tend to have poorer academic performance and are more likely to be involved in a variety of problems, including delinquency, cigarette use and other drug use, in general these findings are clear for White, Asian and American students, but weaker for Hispanics and still weaker for African Americans. Therefore, illustrating that this is very important because a lot of teenager’s have part-time jobs and some work for a long period of time and this information could really help someone who works a lot and is wondering why they aren’t as good as they used to be in
Admittedly, teenagers' jobs can cause problems for them in the upcoming future. In the story “Teenager’s Work Can Have Downsides” by Jerald G. Bachman, he agrees that teens shouldn’t have part-time jobs and talks about all the downsides of teenagers having jobs. Bachman explains that researchers have found that kids in school have poorer grades. Bachman states “Over the years we and other researchers have consistently found that high schoolers who work long hours tend to have poorer academic performance and are more likely to be involved in a variety of problems, including delinquency, cigarette use and other drug use, in general these findings are clear for White, Asian and American students, but weaker for Hispanics and still weaker for African Americans. Therefore, illustrating that this is very important because a lot of teenager’s have part-time jobs and some work for a long period of time and this information could really help someone who works a lot and is wondering why they aren’t as good as they used to be in