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School is hard. If you adults who are reading this article can remember all the way back to your school days, it was hard. Even if all you remember is your wife being in your tenth grade biology class, or when you got to finally free yourself and go home. Even within all those good memories there are bound to be a lot of bad memories, and that’s what we kids are having to go through right now.
Now think of your job. There’s plenty of bad stuff going on there. In fact, in a lot of ways, it’s exactly the same as school. There’s bound to be plenty of ugly rumors going throughout the office, and gossip is one thing that thrives in school. Also, in both places there’s happy lunch time, where you get a break from your chores. You get to talk with your friends, laugh, maybe even laugh at the boss, or the teachers in our case.
The common idea is the office is “real” work, making big business presentations and sorting through lots of paperwork. Well guess what? School is a lot like “real” work, too!
So I’ll get to my point. I really, truly believe that kids should be paid to go to school. I’m sure almost all the parents reading this article have told their kids at least once, “School is your job!” If it really is our job, then shouldn’t we get paid?
Now, for you people who are just going to think that this whole article is a bunch of nonsense and will have a cranky disposition for the rest of the day if you read this, then just stop reading and go read Dave Barry. For the rest of you who actually think I may have a point, keep reading and you could be enlightened.
First of all, think about school this way. A bunch of small children aged all
the way down to five years old and all the way up to eighteen years old. Now think of all those young, and old, children working away at a small desk doing tedious writing work, with a pencil of all things, and doing so not for five dollars an hour, not for one dollar an hour–not even a small quarter an hour, but for free! It’s the worst slave labor I’ve ever seen since that Kathy Lee scandal, but we’re not opening that can of worms.
So you might say, “Sure, that’s fine and well, but what you kids are doing doesn’t affect anybody except maybe a few other kids in your group! What we adults are doing affects the whole stinkin’ community!” Well I’m sorry to say that kids affect the community too. First of all, we’re all affecting ourselves and our futures, which is just as big as a lot of things out there. If you totally foul up while you’re working at McDonald’s by doing something even Jim Carrey would look down upon, you’ll probably be fired. But even if that happens, chances are you’ll get a different job very soon. But if you totally mess up on a big test, that’s it! If it makes you flunk the course, you’ll always have that on your permanent record! Take note, Ernest. “You know what I mean, Vern?”
Now of course you say, “Where will we get the money from, huh? If kids are expected to get paid, we’ll need a lot of greenbacks! In other words, Show me the money!” Well, that’s another article.
Of course, we’d only pay the kids that do their work. Let’s say little Bobby doesn’t enjoy school at all, wishes he could just go through life happily uneducated, and so he doesn’t do any of his daily work and flunks all the tests. He would
definitely not get paid. Now little old Peter, on the other hand, is the one who gets all his assignments in on time and never gets an F all year long. That is the type of kid we’d be paying.
Now don’t get me wrong, school is fine. But it’s not very normal for little children to have to go and sit in a building almost eight hours a day and be told when they can eat or even when to go to the bathroom! Sounds a bit like that Kathy Lee thing again!
So anyway, I think that kids should get paid to go to school. This may not ever happen, but if you remember way, way back, many people thought slavery would never end, because it was just the ‘way of life.’ And not all that long ago women couldn’t vote. But now look how much society has changed. And hopefully if more people started thinking ‘outside the box’, the school system could change a bit, too.
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