Most people would conclude that summer jobs when they were younger were a right of passage, but today’s teens don’t seem to have the same fondness for them. Why is this a problem? While you might think that has to do with today's teens getting lazier and lazier, Derek Thompson had a different idea when he wrote the essay, “Teenagers Have Stopped Getting Summer Jobs—Why?”. While Thompson uses reasoning to support his claim that teens not having summer jobs is not bad, he relies heavily on evidence to convince his audience that teens are spending their free time more strategically. Thompson uses visual graphs to disprove the idea that teens are getting lazy because they don’t have summer jobs by also giving many reasons why they don’t have summer …show more content…
Thompson 22. Disproving the idea that teens are lazy while also stating his opinion when he said, “The supposed laziness of American teenagers is unchanging and, literally, average.” Thompson used evidence and data to tear down the notion that teens are lazy nowadays while comparing them to people who had teen jobs as a whole. Using a multitude of reasoning to support his chosen statistical data that showed the rise in kids staying in school longer and going to college after school, Thompson again proves that kids aren't lazy, but also opens up a door to allow room for his opinion. Thompson believes that kids staying in school isn't a problem and that it could be more beneficial than a summer job when he says, “There are several studies that show summer jobs for teens pay a long-term dividend in higher earnings.But there are even more studies hailing the benefits of high-school completion and college attendance.” He goes on to say that he agrees with kids choosing school over work now and reasons that since there are more benefits it might not just be the kids choosing this since educators and parents agree that you could get farther in life with a better
“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
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.
I like the way Steinberg explains how a simple job can lead to so much more. Parents do not always realize that yes, it is good for a teenager to learn responsibility, but getting a job at that age is not always the right thing to do. Each child is different some may be able to handle it, but most can not. This study shows the effects of how good students can change by working and going to school and how students that already have lost interest in school can loose even more interest and even drop out completely.
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.
This brings us to today where all these adolescents do not know how to do actual work outside of school due to the relaxation they take for granted. Even with Sasse’s powerful arguments and statements, some things are a sign of biased opinion that neglects the parent’s efforts. One of these opinions is, “Our efforts to protect our kids from hurt feelings, tedious chores, money worries, and the like are well-intentioned.” This does not apply to all parents or guardians that raise their children. There is a lack of evidence to illustrate that all parents guide their children this way, making this a disagreeable statement discouraging parents who assume they are doing the right thing.
As years go by, teenagers have been getting lazier and lazier. Read the article “What to do with the kids this summer? Put them to work”, the author “Ben Sasse” argues that teenagers do not want to work a summer job. He uses appeals such as credibility and emotion to support his argument. The author uses the appeal of credibility in order to support his argument that teenagers do not want to work a summer job.
Sarah Chadwick, a Parkland shooting survivor, recently made a video titled “Students Have Had Enough”, mimicking Dana Loesch’s “NRA Has Had Enough” video, a commercial for NRA TV. The two draw obvious parallels in format, but their rhetoric offers plenty of comparisons. Loesch, a spokeswoman for the NRA, represents conservatives “fed up with [the leftist] agenda” Chadwick advocates for progressive Americans who wish to see gun reform. Both speakers have large fallacies regarding context and evidence, but extremely effective emotional appeals.
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...
Her primary purpose for writing this essay is effective because she gives facts about what’s going on with the advertisers helping to prepare a public service announcement on child hunger with parents scheduling many different activities to do over the summer.
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...
Mark Twain, who needs no introduction, has inspired hundreds of thousands, even millions of American youth through his speech “Advice to Youth.” During his speech, Twain tells young people all of the common advice which they have undoubtedly heard time and time again but this time, with a satirical spin. This satirical spin of advice including “[g]o to bed early, get up early” and “[a]lways obey your parents[,]” reveals an underlying tone of the essay: conformity kills individuality. His entire essay is used as an attempt to drill this point into our youth and to persuade them to accept it in truth. Twain undoubtedly persuades his audience that we should conform with society when our leaders and authorities are around us
Joelly Welnel Ms. Krick English 8 12 March 2024 Teen Jobs Teenagers should get jobs because they benefit them by teaching them valuable lessons, reducing crime rates, and preparing them for their future. Articles and research have shown that teenagers getting a job is good for the student, but some may disagree. Teenagers can handle jobs available to their age group, because most don’t require experience. Teenagers getting jobs teaches them valuable lessons. The article “The Best Extracurricular May Be An After-School Job” by Pamela Paul gives examples of teenagers learning valuable lessons from getting jobs and advice.
Jobs can and do improve the lives of adolescents. For example, Jerald G. Bachman, a distinguished senior research scientist at the Institute for Social Research and a research professor at the survey research center at the University of Michigan, the author of “Teenager's Work Can Have Downsides” says in paragraph 4,”. . . [C]ompletion rates are the highest among those who worked 15 hours or less a week when they were high school seniors.” This proves that jobs
That is double the number of students who went to summer school in 1996, according to school district spokesman Keith Bromery”(Durand). The doubled number of students at summer school can be associated with a lot of factors like students struggling with classes, very few are trying to get ahead in classes, and of course lazy students. The lazy students that don’t want to work are a perfect example of where the American dream is going. They realize that they can get a 401K at McDonalds, so if they can scrape bye by taking orders why would they need to work hard? Of course, their logic is flawed because they will not receive enough money at places like McDonalds to pay for their life and will need other assistance, mostly from the government.
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...