What Do You Say?

Paid For Hard Labour

Should we get paid for doing year twelve? This question was put to me a minute ago (thanks em :P) and i was immediately in favour of it! Lol, couldn't believe i hadn't already thought of it, seems like something i might say :P

Anyway, i thought about it for a sec and realised that it actually makes quite a fair bit of sense, especially considering that it's lots more work nowadays than it used to be. If you look at it comparatively, even if you're in a 9-5 job, five days a week, a year twevle student still does significantly more than that. We're at school about the same time, but when you add extra-curriculars, it's a fair bit more - especially for some people - and then there's the fact that we don't get weekends or time outside the 9-5 bracket, because of the school work that we have to be doing, which, even if it's not particularly difficult, still takes up lots of time.

Ok, you might say, but we get more holidays. Technically, yes, we do get more time labelled 'holidays'. However, this year especially, we have so much work that (and i don't know about all of you here, but definately lots of my mates) we don't actually have time to relax, o see out friends or whatever. So it's not really holidays.

I know that it's only for one year; you do often hold jobs for less though. Plus, you're actually paying to do this manual labour! And you don't have time for a job (always) so you really have no source of independant revenue throughout the year.

Therefore, i think that whoever is incharge of things like deciding whether or not to pay students for year twelve should be directed to this blog so he can get the picture :P What do you reckon?

Annie

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