High School Jobs

By: Brandon Rickert

Multiple high school kids have jobs, some work because they're forced, some work for extra money, and some do it to learn responsibility and time management.

There are multiple negatives involved in having jobs while in high school. A job can impact both a student's social and academic life. Junior Chelsea Guzy says "Working late hours, staying up late for homework, not getting enough sleep, and no social life" are a few of the negatives.

Homework and school should be a main priority to kids going through high school. Many kids with jobs have trouble finishing school work, "[I] Can't do my homework and sometimes [have] late assignments." states Junior Garrett Geier.

Kids learn from having jobs but even teenage jobs conflict with adults unemployment. Tiffany Totzke, an english teacher at SHS comments, "There is already enough unemployment for adults to deal with and high school kids take jobs away from unemployed adults." Totzke thinks that academics should be the number one focus. "Money shouldn't be the focus, you have all life to work." says Totzke.