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by shortcake27 1107 days ago
Amazing how the west blasts the east for child slave labour yet we subject our own children to 12 hour days and call it “school”. Very sad.
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Although I got out at 1:50, I worked driving a fork lift in a warehouse from 2-6pm after school. A job I couldn't have in most places today as a teen. The 80s were a different time. Even then I still had more free time for friends than my daughter. She is pretty studious and cares about school which makes a difference. I cared more about drinking and getting high with my friends and didn't really do anything for school outside of it.