Why have teen summer jobs decreased over the years? In the article “Teenagers Have Stopped Getting Summer Jobs-Why?” by Derek Thompson, he is very set and has the information he needs to show how much summer jobs for teens have decreased lately. Thompson gives emotional, truthful, and statistical points showing the downfall. Our author's three rhetorical appeals are strong throughout the whole argument of the article. Thompsons article talks all about the drops and decreases in summer job percentages for teens. In the article, Thompson's main idea was to inform the reader of just how much teen summer job percentages have dropped since the mid 1900s. His reasoning for that decrease is that more teens now are focusing on education. Teens nowadays …show more content…
Current teens are investing more time into their educational careers, with the thought of less labor help being needed. In his article, Thompson uses ethos to show some points of decreases in teen summer jobs. “The rise may be directly related to the fact that parents and high schools are encouraging students to take on more classwork, according to Ben Steverman, a Bloomberg reporter who covers teen employment.” (Thompson 5) That sentence informed the reader by saying how much adults are enforcing school work on teens. With that being said, teens are more likely to be focused on schooling instead of summer jobs. “That suggests–although it cannot prove–that summer jobs have lost cultural cachet, as the norm has shifted away from working.” (Thompson 7). Information like that is saying just how much respect teens have lost for summer jobs. Which is causing these teens to move away from the workforce. With Thompson's truthful ethos, he explains just why these teens have a reason to shift away from summer jobs. Additionally, causing percentages to drop significantly. While Thompson uses the truth of what is causing the decreases, he uses logos to support his reasoning and prove his argument …show more content…
Last summer, just 35 percent were.” (Thompson 1) Thompson uses percentages to really show just how much numbers continue to drop every summer. As only 25 percent of teens were working or looking for work last summer, that says that there are another 75 percent of teens being more involved in education or other activities. Thompsons logos, giving readers true statistics, proves how much teens continue to lessen their appearance at summer jobs over the years. Meanwhile, while our author uses truthful and statistical claims, he also uses pathos to give the reader some emotional insight into the leading cause. “Education is to blame, rather than indolence.” (Thompson 4) Thompson says that it is education's fault for the dropping percentages. Therefore, it is not all the teenagers fault for not taking on summer jobs. Laziness is not what gets in the way, but it's what they are told by adults. “With tougher high-school requirements and greater pressure to go to college, summer classes are the new summer job.” (Thompson 5) With greater pressure and being always told to focus on education, teens are enrolling in summer
Yasemin Besen-Cassino’s essay “Cool Stores, Bad Jobs” highlights why affluent teens get certain jobs. Many of the reasons she wrote about in the essay, I have seen while working at the movie theatre. Hiring managers will try to hire specific kinds of people; people that will fit in with the current employees. While being selective about hiring, the low starting wage offered deterred many, often more experienced, people from accepting the job. Lastly, work is seen as a place to hang out by some of the employees.
“A Generation of Slackers? Not So Much” written by Catherine Rampell is an informative article about today’s millennial generation after high school. It provides the reader with a deeper look into young people’s work ethic, or what some to think to be, lack-there-of. The author does a fantastic job using research, credible resources, and statistics to support her belief that Generation Y (children born in the 1980s and 1990s) is no less productive than previous generations. I will admit that before reading this piece, I was one of those who believed that Millennials were in fact the “coddled, disrespectful and narcissistic generation” (Rampell, 2011, para 3). After reading this article, my opinion has changed. It has touched on issues
In the essay, “Working at McDonald’s,” Amitai Etzioni shares his strong belief that working, especially at McDonald’s type restaurants, is bad for teenagers. I would agree that working is not a good thing for teenagers under some circumstances but at other times it is good. First, jobs affect school involvement and attendance in bad ways. Second, jobs often provide “on the job experience,” but much of the time the experience taught is useless. Third, fast food jobs may provide a disadvantaged status. Fast food jobs can also provide an advantaged status. Finally, workers can learn to manage their money by making mistakes with money before they get into the Real World.
Jobs won’t only support teens for the things they want, but it can help benefit for the things they need. The first things teens think of for their future are going to college and getting their first car. But, let’s say there’s a well educated thirteen-year-old, raised in a low-income family, who has plans on going to college. There’s no way their family can support him to go to college, and its funds could be over-whelming. The only way they could go to college is if they started saving at an early age. Therefore, if they got a job at the age they were at now, they’d be on their way to college by the time they graduate high school. Or, another example would be, if a teen wanted to get their first car on their sixteenth birthday. As you may know, many teens don’t get things handed to them on a silver platter, so they’d have to buy that car themselves. They might be old enough to drive, but they just turned the legal working age. Once they get a job, they’d have to wait at least a year to have enough money for the car as well as its insurance.
Summary: In the essay, “Part-time Employment Undermines a Student’s Commitment to School” by Laurence Steinberg, it explains how studies show that teenagers that work while attending school are more likely to loose their commitment to school. Steinberg tells the effects on students when they work more than twenty hours a week. His theory was that students are more susceptible to losing their interest in school, while working. They may have to work in the evening time, which can interfere with homework, sleep and diet. Steinberg also elaborated on how these students that work receive money that can make school seem less desirable. Also because they do receive money, they can use their extra money to become associated with drugs and alcohol.
Students spend four years of their lives attending high school. Going through high school is mandatory as it prepares them for college and strength to face “the real world.” Having part-time jobs has become the phenomenon among high school students and many students follow this trend as well. Moreover, there are some pros and cons attached with it. Though it may seem like working throughout high school is a bad idea, it could better prepare students for “the real world.” Although some people believe that the primary duty of a student is studying, I am of the opposite position. I strongly support the idea that high school students should work throughout high school. This is because they can earn money, become responsible and get experience.
By presenting certain uses of statistics, diction, and expert testimonies, Jeffrey Selingo supports his overall statement that teens and college students should work while pursuing their education because it is impactful for their future. To begin, Selingo presents statistics and a timeline to illustrate the problem. Selingo advises on page 1 that the rate of overall teenagers in the workforce during school has “dropped from 40% in 1990 to just 20 percent today” (Selingo). Using statistics like these contributes to the overall claim by making his essay logical, and displays that he has done the research needed to prove his thesis. It reveals how he wants the reader to understand where he is coming from, and why his claim is a poignant issue that needs to be worked on using the stats given.
Students’ wouldn’t be able to hold down a job is the second reason they shouldn’t dropout of high school. Many employers would like to have someone who has been too high school and that have been educated so they can handle money and add things p...
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Sowell argues that, “… in the United States, unemployment rates for younger workers are often 20 percent or higher, even when there is no recession.” These jobs pay low wages for a reason. So that teenagers have a base to start their life as an employee. If this continues than teenagers will never have the opportunity to gain experience to eventually get hired at a higher level job. It will be nearly impossible for future generations to find a job. Unemployed will lose many opportunities to earn a higher rate of pay in the
With this issue the teens tend to earn less money than those who have graduated and have went to college. This causes the children of the teen parent’s to struggle to keep up with their school peers. Teen mothers face the struggle of earning less money than those who waited to have their babies at a later time. It is found that teen mom’s, who have had babies at the age of seventeen or younger, make twenty-eight thousand dollars less after fifteen years of giving birth. In the next generation, the daughters of the teen mothers are three times more likely to become teen mothers themselves. Also in this generation, only forty percent of teen mothers who give birth at the age of seventeen or earlier actually finish high school; and twenty three percent of the younger moms go on to retain a GED ( A Baby Changes Everything: The True Cost of Teen Pregnancy’s
America is a very self-fulfilling economy and class matters after all in this so called “American Dream.” When did teenagers become any different. Last time I checked we were all equal. John M. Bridgeland in First, Help Today’s Struggling Youth. states that yet every year in America more than one million youth drop out of high school, crippling their chance at the American Dream.” John also states; “Nearly one in six, between the ages of sixteen to twenty four years old, is disconnected from the two structures that offer hope for their future.” These are school and work. This is where we need to promote growth and provide teens with any tools necessary to achieve. We need to be open to any ideas that this generation foresees in the future. John is a strong believer in the Youth Build program. In the third paragraph of First, Help Today’s Struggling Youth., he says that with a track record of success, Youth Build offers a holistic program of education, job training, personal counseling, community service, leadership development, placement in college or jobs, and follow-up support afte...
It’s nonsensical to believe that every sixteen-year old should know what he or she wants to do with his or her life, and even more so to discourage someone from pursuing his or her interests. In a capitalist society, it makes sense that average salaries a few years out from college graduation would strongly influence the interests of many young people. It’s not uncommon to come across newspaper articles or editorials bemoaning the United States’ lack of engineers or glut of unemployed English majors. It’s even more common to...
For teenagers typically the best employment is during the summer months due to the fact that they are out of school and thus have an increased amount of leisure time and many places require an extra source labor in order to accommodate for the rush which typically occurs during the summer months (Hall, 2013). In the year 1999 just above fifty-two percent of teenagers from the age of sixteen to the age of nineteen were employed for a summer job, however; the current employment rate for the same age group was around 32.25 percent in the past June and July an extremely low number especially considering that this was the peak teenage employment season (Hall, 2013). This has been compared to the great depression by some due to the fact that the numbers are somewhat similar to those seen during the great depression, in fact An...
Teens today face a lot of pressure. Many students deal with difficult life situations that hinder them from focusing on their futures. This can lead to a loss of interest in school and school events, such as a sports, clubs, or after school programs. Teens start to prioritize other things over their education. Every year, over 1.2 million students will leave school without earning a high school diploma in the United States alone (“11”). That’s a student every 26 seconds – or 7,000 a day (“11”). The United States, which used to have the highest graduation rates of any country, now ranks 22nd out of 27 developed countries (“11”). Students may not realize that by dropping out of high school they are more likely to commit crimes, become parents at a young age, use and abuse alcohol and drugs, and live in poverty (“Drop”). Dropouts make up the majority of those