"Get kids off the streets and back into the coal mines and fields where they belong!"
now we spend $8,000 a year to educate kids, and 13 years of that => $100,000 later, many of them have no clue how to work and some can't read too good, er, well.
Ah, the good ol days (that werent so good but built character).
Rename those outdoor berry-picking jobs "alternative environmental work-based education" and you've got yourself
a place for the scamps who are abusing our current educational system. I think if Johnnie realized the alternative was days of hard labor, Johnnie might pay attention alot better in school!
Little Johnnie will learn soon enough. There are a lot of teens out there playing video games today who will be cleaning toilets tomorrow.