Oh that's going to put rural areas back at 1930's ass schooling levels real fucking quick. Worse even. Kids in rural high schools in Indiana are already getting very agriculturally focused education largely, and this will just make the poor ones less able to advance in the long run. Presumably only the poorest would drop out to work when better jobs would be related to more education on agriculture. Indiana will easily sail to the bottom of adult education levels if they get that through, I would think.

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 32 points 8 months ago

High fructose corn education

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yea going to go ahead and assume they aren't going to pay those 14 year olds what anybody would even put in the same discussion as a living wage.

This will just make sure these kids never advance past what should have been a summer job for a couple years.

This is like if you asked somebody to come up with a way to increase generational poverty as much as possible, especially if it's only for "corporate farms"

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 18 points 8 months ago

Yeah they're going to feel it in a decade when all those kids are in their mid 20s and they haven't reached their full education potential and then people wonder why there's a shortage of rural medical workers. Some big disaster rolls through and the wafer-thin margins will get shredded and the disaster response will compound on the original disaster and create a royally fucked situation for all kinds of folk. See: Texas during the winter storm a couple years ago. "Where are all the linemen?" They're baling alfalfa you dipshits.