Short-staffed school districts are hiring students to serve lunch and answer phones

[haele]

6. As long as the students aren't missing critical basic credits for the work,

And are getting work experience, pay, and credits - and this isn't used as a placeholder for otherwise failing students just to pad their attendance numbers, while I am sad that they have to do this to fill in critical school services.

As a side, my high school had seniors "jobs" running the student store or the auditorium/sports events ticket office for senior extra credit.

The young lady interviewed seemed to take this as an opportunity, as she already had her college picked and presumably had been accepted.

Haele