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An education through at least high school is expected now, and the curricula are more demanding. All the kids I know worked through high school, mine did, my grandkids do, but these aren’t career jobs. Manufacturing and farming were the two big industries that you could move right out of 8th grade into a job, but they are both highly automated now. There isn’t so much demand for career grunt workers. Bottom line, preparing the average kid for life in our complicated world takes longer.
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