AlaskaBushPilot
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Greetings from the Rural Alaska Homeschool. We have been doing an increasing amount of trades education and wow, you want to talk about a kid growing up. Thinking like an adult.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bib-LPELfb0
$120 an hour work. Eight years old.
A lot of things are coming together, he has been shadowing me in remote construction contracting for years.
The only places you can do this kind of training are on private property, like homeschool or farm or business, or a religious sect like Hutterites or FLDS, whatever.
There is a lot of talk, and a lot of articles out about the alleged rennaissance of trade and tech education. But it is not for adolescents. Mostly post secondary. Very little in the high schools, and almost nothing in the junior highs nowadays.
As far as public schools are concerned, it seems like it is over for good on meandingful trades education for adolescents. No wonder manufacturers locate abroad too, and why you hire a 35 year old Mexican illegal to do a job a 12 year old American boy can do.
Because it is illegal to hire the 12 year old American and you will go to jail under hysterical accusations of child labor exploitation. If you hire the Mexican illegal, that is okay and the government will give his whole family health care and housing too. If you build abroad, you can hire 12 year olds and pay 50 cents an hour. The only one punished is the American youth getting the good training and job.
We aren't worried about it, obviously - but for our country it just seems so misguided. Why can't a 14 year old be making $90k as a welder, and drive his welding truck to any place to work so long as he passes a driving exam?
Because he can't vote. We take the rights of people who have no representation and explain it is for their own good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bib-LPELfb0
$120 an hour work. Eight years old.
A lot of things are coming together, he has been shadowing me in remote construction contracting for years.
The only places you can do this kind of training are on private property, like homeschool or farm or business, or a religious sect like Hutterites or FLDS, whatever.
There is a lot of talk, and a lot of articles out about the alleged rennaissance of trade and tech education. But it is not for adolescents. Mostly post secondary. Very little in the high schools, and almost nothing in the junior highs nowadays.
As far as public schools are concerned, it seems like it is over for good on meandingful trades education for adolescents. No wonder manufacturers locate abroad too, and why you hire a 35 year old Mexican illegal to do a job a 12 year old American boy can do.
Because it is illegal to hire the 12 year old American and you will go to jail under hysterical accusations of child labor exploitation. If you hire the Mexican illegal, that is okay and the government will give his whole family health care and housing too. If you build abroad, you can hire 12 year olds and pay 50 cents an hour. The only one punished is the American youth getting the good training and job.
We aren't worried about it, obviously - but for our country it just seems so misguided. Why can't a 14 year old be making $90k as a welder, and drive his welding truck to any place to work so long as he passes a driving exam?
Because he can't vote. We take the rights of people who have no representation and explain it is for their own good.