Students who Work to Much By:Andrea Hedican

Do you have a job? Do you work a lot? Have you ever thought that you have been working too much? Well if some of you do not know there are certain times that certain aged people are supposed to work on a school night. Do you know anything about child labor law?

Child labor is the use of young workers in factories, or on farms. Child labor was first recognized in the late 18th-century as a social problem.

Well here is a little information about it. Did you know that if you are sixteen or seventeen years of age you may not work after 11 p.m. on a school night. If there was a written parent permission the hours may be expanded to 11:30. If you are fourteen or fifth teen years of age you may not work anytime after 9:00 p.m. on a school night, and you may only have a maximum of eight hours per day and forty hours per week when school is in session.

We interviewed some Johnson students who have while school is in session. Junior Angie Caballero says she works one job and with that one job she works twenty-five to thirty hours a week, Monday through Friday on a school night. Well some of us are thinking how does she do it? She says, “ it is not easy and it does affect my school work and sleep.” Another question came into mind. How does she get her homework done? How does she balance it all out? “I usually try to do my homework in other classes,” replied Angie. But she is not the only one who works that many hours around here. Senior Larry Gandy is just as high as her he works about twenty-five hours a week once again Monday through Friday. Larry does not get off until 10:00 p.m. on a school night. Do you not think it is kind of hard to do something like that? Then staying up about 2 hours later trying to finish homework and then having to go to bed late.

So the question is why do kids want to work so much? You also have to think some kids don't choose to work either they just might have to. These days' kids want to have their own car and to go along with having their own car they probably have to pay for their own insurance and insurance is a lot of money. There are other things that go along with that too, they have to pay for the gas and they want free time and go out and do what they want so they need money for that.

According to Georgia Department of Labor, approximately 80% of all students will work sometime during high school. Minimum wage now since of August 1 for a large employer is $6.15. Minimum wage now since of August 1 for a small employer is $5.25. The youngest age to get a job would be at the age of fourteen unless there is an exception of a mall carrier, model, actor, and actress.

Accuplacer Test By: Linda Xiong
2/21/2008 1:26 PM

Have You Bought A Book? By: Chalisa Anderson
2/20/2008 1:54 PM

President Election-Democratic!
2/20/2008 1:40 PM

Party At HAP?
2/6/2008 4:40 PM

A Party At HAP?

By Editor Hlee Vang

Coming up on Saturday, January 26, 2008 Shades Of Yellow (SOY) will be hosting their “4th Annual Hmong GLBT New Year Celebration” (Hmong Today, The Nation’s Hmong Newspaper, Volume 5, Edition 1).

Flipping to page 11, SOY had an ad for the SOY’s fourth annual GLBT Hmong New Year. The ad says the celebration will be at the Hmong American Partnership building on 1075 Arcade St in St. Paul and doors will open at 5:00 pm and expected to last until 10:00 pm.

“COME OUT AND HAVE FUN WITH US!!!” is printed in red, capital letters under the title “4^th Annual Hmong GLBT New Year Celebration”.

Coming out for many GLBT people is a tough decision. That’s why Phai Xiong and Xeng Lor came up with this ‘New Year’ idea to help those people feel more comfortable and founded SOY.

Phai Xiong had a master degree, a social worker, and is well known in the Hmong Community. When he heard that the GLBT Hmong was an issue that was not being seriously talked as a concern, he started a group with 5 to 10 GLBT Hmong. He attended meetings and discussions of the GLBT community and learned more about the community. Later on, he read an article written by Xeng Lor about the GLBT community and contacted him to shared their personal struggles for being gay Hmong.

SOY’s mission is to “provide support, education, cultural awareness, social gatherings, and advocacy to Hmong GLBT, SOY members, families, allies and the Hmong community in the Twin Cities.” (www.shadesofyellow.com)

January 21, 2006 was SOY’s first ‘public’ GLBT New Year. Surprisingly for Xiong, about 300 people showed up to the first public GLBT Hmong New Year including Non-Hmong and supporters at the Queen Asia Restaurant.

Xiong explains on the SOY website about having the first public GLBT New Year is important for many reasons, “It is historically significant because it is the first public Hmong GLBT event, it’s the only place where GLBT identified Hmong can comfortably be gay and Hmong at the same time, helping to link all the communities together- Hmong, non-Hmong, gay and non-gay.”

Xiong also felt that “the time was right for the Hmong GLBT community to have a public Hmong New Year celebration.” (www.shadesofyellow.com)

Before SOY’s first public GLBT Hmong New Year, the New Years were held in people’s basement, the first New Year was held in Xiong’s garage. They hid from the “public-eye to avoid ridicule and scrutiny.” (www.shadesofyellow.com)

SOY also held a public GLBT Hmong New Year was held on February 17, 2007 at FoodSmart- one of Minnesota’s largest and most prestigious Hmong owned halls.

Many people from Providence, R.I., Fresno, CA, and Greensborough, NC attended this New Year.

SOY also has other holiday celebrations like picnics, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.

Tickets are $10.00 at the door and $7.00 in advance.

The crowning of Miss SOY 2008 Pageant will be taking place at the GLBT Hmong New Year along with entertainments, food, salavong (a Laotian word for a dance party), coming out stories, and lots of other fun activities.

If you’re interested and want to go… Don’t Miss Out!

Deaths and Preventions
2/6/2008 4:34 PM

Deaths and Preventions

Editor Hlee Vang

Suicide is a very serious problem and should be dealt with professional help. Depression is the number one cause of suicide, which is caused by many things like the lost of a loved one, jobs, family problems, etc.

Minnesota is rank the number 37 state out of 51, for suicide rates while Alaska has the highest suicide rate- 23.6 per 100,000 and Washington has the lowest- 6.0 per 100,000. (suicide.org)

Suicide is the eleventh leading causes of deaths. (www.suicidology.org)

Ever year, in 2001, about 17 minutes, someone commits suicide, in about forty seconds, someone attempts suicide, and about 88 people die from suicide everyday in the United States. (suicide.org)

In 2004, the national suicide rate was 10.9 per 100,000. (www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/suicide-in-the-us-statistics-and-prevention.shtml)

Anyone who is going through depression or thinking of suicide should be reported and given help to prevent suicide.

There are three commonly used suicide methods: firearm, hanging/suffocation, and poisoning.

Sadly, firearm is the most popular suicide methods for those who commit suicide. Hanging is the number two most common methods for suicide and poisoning is the third. (suicide.org)

Materials like guns, blankets, or pills can all be easily conceived by a suicidal person. If you know someone who is suicidal, never leave him/her alone, unattended.

YOU can help prevent suicides by first reporting the problem, listening carefully, talking in a gentle voice, take everything the person says seriously, encourage the person to be and stay in treatment, invite the person to do activities that were once enjoyed by the person. For example: walks, going to movies or participate in religious, social or other activities. (http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/depression/complete-publication.shtml)

If YOU are going through depression, you can help yourself and others help you by letting them help you, engage yourself with others in activities like walks or exercise, set realistic goals by breaking big tasks into small ones, doing what you can as you can, postpone important decisions like changing jobs, and remember to think positive thoughts. (http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/depression/complete-publication.shtml)

SUICIDE HOTLINES

MINNEAPOLIS   Crisis Intervention Center  Hennepin County Medical Center  24 hour/ 7 days  

Suicide Hotline (612) 873-2222  Crisis Referral Line (612) 873-3161

Love Lines Crisis Center   24 hours / 7 days (612) 379-1199

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL  For Twin Cities Metro Area for Residents Only   24-hour Crisis Counseling  Crisis Connection   24 hours / 7 days  (612) 379-6363 (612) 379-6377 TDD

To remember those who you loved, go to suicide.org and click on the WALL OF ANGELS SUICIDE MEMORIALS tab to add pictures and messages of your loved one.

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