Dr  Godfrey: Now that high school students are allowed to work more than 15 hours per week at part-time jobs, those who actually do so show less interest in school and get lower grades than those who do not work as many hours at part-time jobs  Obviously, working long hours at part-time jobs during the school year contributes to the academic problems that many of our high school students experience  Dr  Nash: That' s not so
Many of our high school students set out to earn as much money as they can simply to compensate for their lack of academic success
whether the students who work more than 15 hours per week and have academic problems had such problems before they began to work that many hours