Which detail from the passage best supports the
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Should You Work During the School Year?
article's main idea that working during the school
by Staff Writer Maryam Khan
year is beneficial?
1 Every Tuesday and Thursday, high school junior Kayla Morrison goes to a
local café--not to eat, but to work. For the last four months, she's been working
Getting a job as a teen tells potential future
at the café those two afternoons a week and every Saturday morning.
O employers that you have initiative, that is, the
2 Kayla is one of the many American high school students who work. In fact,
energy that's needed to do something.
around eighty percent of all high school students will have had some kind of job
by the time they graduate. But is working during the school year a good thing?
Let's find out
According to the U.S. Department of Education, Benefits
in 2007, 24.8% of 16-and 17-year-olds worked. 3 Kayla's friend Sergio Morales is a senior who works fifteen to twenty hours a
A slightly larger number worked 15
week bagging groceries. He says, "Per hour, the money doesn't sound like
much, but it adds up. I like being able to spend it on things I want to buy. And I
more per week than those worki
an am also saving a little to go to a community college next year."
15 hours
4 Sergio has named an obvious benefit of working-getting money in return for
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