Hey teenagers, don’t text while driving. If you want to smoke cigarettes, you’re going to have to dig deep for more change. If you drop out of school, you could lose your license.
Summer jobs are hard to find. State colleges are hard to get into. And if you get into college, you’ll need a dump truck full of money to pay for it.
Between legislators creating a “nanny state” and the economy fouling up the future, it sure seems like a tough time to be a teen. Or is it?
In some ways, it is difficult to be a teen in 2010, according to high school students who shared their opinions on these points over the past two weeks. But other than the economy, the struggles they brought up sound typical for almost any generation.
