Snow Days Causes Loss of Money for Students

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Tori Hennick
Arts + Cultures Editor

With the snow days that Southeast Polk has been thrown, students are missing out on days not only to  enjoy themselves in the summer, but also days they could be using to work. Studies from NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) show that more than two-thirds of high school students were employed during their senior year. 22.7 percent of those students were working at least 20 hours per week. This study was done in 1992. Although the data is old, it is more than relevant today.
If students back then were working 20+ hours a week, they must be working just as much, if not more in 2015. Most students 10-12th grade have jobs, for example sophomore Joey Hupp. Joey is currently a busser at the Pleasant Hill Market Café.
“If the school year is being pushed farther back all the time, I still have to work.”Like most students, Joey pays his phone bill, so every time he has to miss work it makes that objective just a little bit harder.
                Students could be working anywhere from a restaurant, in a grocery store, or even at the mall. Students have homework, work, and a social life to keep up with. Most students have things they have to pay for because their parents won’t/aren’t capable of taking care of financially – car insurance, gas money, phone bills, school clothes. These are just some of the many things high school students are in charge of paying for.

Every day that the school year gets pushed farther back, students lose more money. If a student is working a minimum wage job - $7.25 an hour and work a 7 hour shift (roughly the time they spend in school), they are missing out on making up to $50.00 every day. When children are told they should be saving up for college or a car, it is hard to look at the school days that have to be made up because that is money that can’t be put towards things that will be needed in the future. 

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