Work AND School?!
Senior Avery Stoddard at the opening night of Gravity Factory.
Work, work, work. That’s what goes through their heads when high schoolers have jobs. Between homework, extracurriculars, and jobs it seems like there is no downtime. In Idaho’s law when you turn 16 you are technically an adult. This means that students can work full time or part time hours and close during the week.
“I usually would close three nights a week. If it’s busy it takes about an hour to close, ” Senior Kyson Hill said.
They are only a few jobs high schoolers can get in Rexburg. A few jobs that are out of town will be a drive away, but Madison students know how to make it work.
“It’s a 32-minute drive exactly. I usually work the night shift from 5-10,” Junior Easton Cordero, who works at Kelly Canyon, said.
It can be very stressful working while having school on the mind, but students know what they signed up for. So should something change for schools or the minor work laws?
“I know what I signed up for. I know I’m taking AP classes and doing student council which requires zero hour and I know that I’m working. I feel like a lot of the times it’s the stress that comes outside of school that makes it that much worse,” Senior Ambree Christensen said.
