A bill to bring back full-on child labor is about to pass in my state and I feel so bad because the legislature just wants to drive down the cost of unskilled l

A bill to bring back full-on child labor is about to pass in my state and I feel so bad because the legislature just wants to drive down the cost of unskilled labor and pay for it out of high school education and extracurriculars. Teenagers can already work when school's out, weekends, and afternoons on school nights. There's no sane argument for having a teenager close on a school night. I don't even think there's a sane argument for working during the school year at all. High school isn't like college where it's 16-20 fairly flexible hours of class a week, waking up at 6 (5 if you have morning conditioning) and going to school until 3, plus homework, plus after school stuff, is already a god damn 60 hour week. Having rules that teens can't work during the school year is how we say that the system is supposed to be set up so they don't have to.