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Having kids clean the bathrooms at school is not in any way a solution to that, Jackson.
You're taking a job from an adult wage earner, and giving it to a kid who is still in school all day.
How does that fix poverty?
The janitor has to supervise. I don't want to fire him.
Maybe most of us on the board just don;t know what it really is like to be poor. I was there with those children and families who just couldn't provide what most of us have.
Listen to what they got for Christmas. A coloring book and crayons, and one told me his father killed Santa so he wouldn't be coming. Watch what they wear after Christmas. Forget the nice duds, some still showed up in pajamas. I bought more belts, shoes, socks and made scarfs and bought their valentines and Halloween costumes than you'll ever see. I made a store in my room full of Barbie dolls and cars and toys that they could earn with merits for good work and wonderful manners.
Don;t tell me what is good or bad. I have seen the bad and sometimes there no chance of recovery. Parents want to help, but usually can't. I tried my damnest to give them self confidence, skills and what I could. And the can and do work hard. Let them have the rewards that others never got but never deserved.
Living wage jobs for the parents/parent would be much more desireable. Don't you agree?
Having kids clean the bathrooms at school is not in any way a solution to that, Jackson.
You're taking a job from an adult wage earner, and giving it to a kid who is still in school all day.
How does that fix poverty?
The janitor has to supervise. I don't want to fire him.
So you believe that there will be the same number of adult janitors, and Newt is just proposing adding some kid janitors?
The janitor has to supervise. I don't want to fire him.
So you believe that there will be the same number of adult janitors, and Newt is just proposing adding some kid janitors?
Just one. Along with a teacher to monitor the students in study hall.
Conceding ever so slightly to flak he’s taken for calling child labor laws “stupid” and suggesting that schools fire janitors and replace with them poor kids, GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich got more specific today, saying working-class students should be limited to jobs like cleaning bathrooms. Bowing to concerns that janitorial work is dangerous, Gingrich floated, “What if they became assistant janitors and their jobs were to mop the floor and clean the bathroom?
And this is the GOP's "Great White Hope"?
Gingrich Doubles Down On Child Labor: Poor Kids Should 'Clean The Bathroom' | ThinkProgress
But......if the parents have living wage jobs.....those kids can concentrate on their studies......and on being kids.
They get to be 15 or 16 and want to push fries or stock shelves.....great. But to HAVE TO in order to help support the family.................not a good thing.
Having kids clean the bathrooms at school is not in any way a solution to that, Jackson.
You're taking a job from an adult wage earner, and giving it to a kid who is still in school all day.
How does that fix poverty?
But......if the parents have living wage jobs.....those kids can concentrate on their studies......and on being kids.
They get to be 15 or 16 and want to push fries or stock shelves.....great. But to HAVE TO in order to help support the family.................not a good thing.
For the non midget minded--here is what Newt Gingrich actually said.
Newt Gingrich: "Child Labor Laws Are Stupid" - YouTube[/url[
But......if the parents have living wage jobs.....those kids can concentrate on their studies......and on being kids.
They get to be 15 or 16 and want to push fries or stock shelves.....great. But to HAVE TO in order to help support the family.................not a good thing.
omg... raise your kids the way you want. nobody is forcing any kids to HAVE TO GO WORK. gawd forbid.
The adults working as janitors and maintenance workers need their jobs.
But......if the parents have living wage jobs.....those kids can concentrate on their studies......and on being kids.
They get to be 15 or 16 and want to push fries or stock shelves.....great. But to HAVE TO in order to help support the family.................not a good thing.
omg... raise your kids the way you want. nobody is forcing any kids to HAVE TO GO WORK. gawd forbid.
I am not saying 15 or 16 year olds can't. What is wrong with your ability to comprehend.
But......if the parents have living wage jobs.....those kids can concentrate on their studies......and on being kids.
They get to be 15 or 16 and want to push fries or stock shelves.....great. But to HAVE TO in order to help support the family.................not a good thing.
omg... raise your kids the way you want. nobody is forcing any kids to HAVE TO GO WORK. gawd forbid.
I agree with you... However these idiots are attempting to imply kids shouldn't work - even if they want to.
Some families cant afford to give their kids credit cards and if those kids want money they will have to earn it. Of course the only thing they can do is flip burgers or clean bathrooms, and as a matter of fact when you flip burgers one of your other jobs is to clean the bathrooms..
I don't even understand how anyone would or could complain about kids doing work..
It's odd.
What is this?? damage control for the ignorant???
No, the truth is that progressive fools such as yourself took Newts words out of context then tried to bash him for no fucking reason like the typical hateful progressives you are and then you got beaten back with the logic stick..
The solution to your argument and point is that kids shouldn't be cleaning toilets but should be doing skilled work without possessing a skill given the notion they're kids - that or they shouldn't work at all.
I'm not even a Newt supporter - I just find your opposition ignorant...
"out of context"
This is not what Gingrich or any others who support this idea are talking about and you know it.
