On 05/02/2018 10:53, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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Archibald Tarquin Blenkinsopp wrote:
When I was at school I picked potatoes. The first day was hard, but you got used to it. The BBC clip was a pointless exercise, perhaps if they had done it for a week they would have got into the swing of it.

Speak for yourself!

I didn't last a week.

In the part of Scotland where I was born and educated, country areas had
different school summer holidays to cover 'tattie houwking' which was done
by school children, but paid for. The majority who did this seemed to
manage OK.

But in those days they didn't spend every hour of the day staring at a
phone and being taken everywhere by car, so likely started off physically
rather fitter.

Many children would take up the offer. The idea of making say £5 per
hour, even at a piece rate would attract many.

The issues would be legal ones, first children can only work 16 hours a
week, and then only with permission of the head teacher. The other would
be child protection issues.