purplerabbits

I bet those pupils are miffed - don't blame them but if it's work in school hours, then I think the school is justified in calling it schooling.

When I was at school work experience had to be done in the holidays, being as one part of the experience was not getting long school holidays. The probably not being paid was supposed to convince you of the need to pass your exams so that people would pay you in future...

Thing with work experience is it's sometimes slave labour for the child but as often its slave labour for the people the kid is working for, who get a WE student dumped on them - I've been on both ends of that one. I had 2 students for 2 weeks when I was at IBM - the first one was fantastic, did some work for me, learnt lots, and spent his free time creating a sculpture out of bulldog clips. The second was a nightmare the entire time and I don't think he learnt anything, apart from experiencing an official bollocking from one of the directors of IBM UK...