AlaskaBushPilot
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Hi folks. It's good to be back at the world premier homeschool site. The place of open minds to high achievement at young ages.
Today I'd like to talk about a problem faced by those not ruled by the state educational system, and who are capable of finishing their education years earlier than the dumbed-down state system. The problem is child labor laws.
I started construction at 13 years old. It is now illegal until age 18 in the state I worked. If you finished high school at 12 years old, which I believe anyone with an average IQ is capable of - it would still be illegal to work even if it were a desk job in a perfect climate controlled environment or even remotely at home. (The exception is family businesses, which is why our kids have over $80k between them already)
This is part of the objective for child labor laws - to make adolescents slaves of the educational industry until they are legal adults and can vote against politicians that oppress them in this way. Another objective is by older workers who do not want the competition from younger workers. So they protect the younger workers by denying them the right to work.
Our kids will be done with their college educations soon enough. Both started at age 13. The 14 year old is in his 5th semester of aerospace engineering and the 13 year old is just finishing his first semester.
The 13 year old faces a tougher employment problem because his program is only 2 years. We'll have him do additional certificates that will push his graduation off until age 16.
And at 16 both of them will get court granted "emancipation". That makes them legal adults in almost every respect, but most importantly with employment. The stupid child labor laws do not apply to an emancipated person.
There are five criteria in our state, all of them easy to exceed. They have to live on their own and support themselves, basically. The law is a catch-22 in that they are not allowed to legally work but are required to support themselves in order to get emancipated and work, lol. I do acknowledge you and your employer can get a permit on a case by case basis, for example a 16 year old can work in a grocery store here with a permit.
But the bureaucrats do not look kindly on oilfield work which our 13 year old is qualifying for. We met with the oil company recruiter that we are most interested in, and gave him the Alaska state labor handbook with the provisions for emancipated teens. He was very encouraging and wrote us back after submitting it to his legal department.
When we met the recruiter he explained that if you do their internship from the program he is enrolled in, it is basically a lead pipe cinch for permanent employment. They start at $85K and average $135k after five years. We were blown away by the bonus program he informed us of: every five years, the employees get a $100,000 bonus if the company meets its production goals, and they always have.
That means while our son is still a teenager he will have a $200,000 + year. That's what early education and emancipation can do for you.
Today I'd like to talk about a problem faced by those not ruled by the state educational system, and who are capable of finishing their education years earlier than the dumbed-down state system. The problem is child labor laws.
I started construction at 13 years old. It is now illegal until age 18 in the state I worked. If you finished high school at 12 years old, which I believe anyone with an average IQ is capable of - it would still be illegal to work even if it were a desk job in a perfect climate controlled environment or even remotely at home. (The exception is family businesses, which is why our kids have over $80k between them already)
This is part of the objective for child labor laws - to make adolescents slaves of the educational industry until they are legal adults and can vote against politicians that oppress them in this way. Another objective is by older workers who do not want the competition from younger workers. So they protect the younger workers by denying them the right to work.
Our kids will be done with their college educations soon enough. Both started at age 13. The 14 year old is in his 5th semester of aerospace engineering and the 13 year old is just finishing his first semester.
The 13 year old faces a tougher employment problem because his program is only 2 years. We'll have him do additional certificates that will push his graduation off until age 16.
And at 16 both of them will get court granted "emancipation". That makes them legal adults in almost every respect, but most importantly with employment. The stupid child labor laws do not apply to an emancipated person.
There are five criteria in our state, all of them easy to exceed. They have to live on their own and support themselves, basically. The law is a catch-22 in that they are not allowed to legally work but are required to support themselves in order to get emancipated and work, lol. I do acknowledge you and your employer can get a permit on a case by case basis, for example a 16 year old can work in a grocery store here with a permit.
But the bureaucrats do not look kindly on oilfield work which our 13 year old is qualifying for. We met with the oil company recruiter that we are most interested in, and gave him the Alaska state labor handbook with the provisions for emancipated teens. He was very encouraging and wrote us back after submitting it to his legal department.
When we met the recruiter he explained that if you do their internship from the program he is enrolled in, it is basically a lead pipe cinch for permanent employment. They start at $85K and average $135k after five years. We were blown away by the bonus program he informed us of: every five years, the employees get a $100,000 bonus if the company meets its production goals, and they always have.
That means while our son is still a teenager he will have a $200,000 + year. That's what early education and emancipation can do for you.
