“When the quarantine started, they called me in because they were super busy, four times a week at the beginning,” she said. Layla Atkinson, a 16-year-old sophomore and a bagger at Publix, juggled an increased work schedule and the switch to distance learning in the early weeks of the pandemic. Others are settling into routines and learning a new kind of discipline.
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Students, similarly, reported a variety of situations, with some businesses extending the teens’ hours only until they could adjust their hiring to meet changes in demand. In normal times, the National Restaurant Association estimates between 1.5 million and 2 million teens, ages 16-19, work in the nation’s restaurants, and about a third of all teenagers hold some kind of job.īut these are not normal times, and the association could not provide any statistics that would reflect the change since COVID-19 shut-downs began in March. Some managers are seeing this as an opportunity, like it’s spring break, or it’s Christmas, when the kids are out of school.”
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“I would say I probably have between 12 and 15 kids working at essential places like grocery stores that are not closed.
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Other students are helping support families as unemployment heads toward levels that, according to some warnings, could reach 20 percent.Īmanda Linton, an English teacher at Strawberry Crest High School, ran into one of her juniors, Madison Davis, working the drive-thru window at Chick-Fil-A, in the middle of the day. Amanda Linton, English teacher at Strawberry Crest High and candidate, is filed for the Senate in District 21, says retail and restaurant employers are hiring teenagers as if school were not in session.