Can a part-time jobs affect school work?

Right now, more than a third of high school students hold part-time jobs; and four out of five are employed at some time while attending high school. (SOURCE:Google.)Companies like McDonald's hire them because they are mostly inexperimented so easier to control.In this way the "dear customers" become the "poor employees ".However can a teenager concentrate in both his study and the part-time he just got?Won't the part-time job be over the school work?



In the page 79 of the chapter "BEHIND THE COUNTER" of ERIC SCHLOSSER said that"as more and more kids work to get their own wheels, fewer participate in after school activities. They stay at their jobs late into the night, neglect their homework, and come to school exhausted." The americain life is expensive so teens need to work extremely long hours in order to feed all their needs.After a long hours of work,they concentrate on their homework which sometimes requiert a lot of time.Teenagers can 't afford the two pressions so the situation is going to affect their grades.Studies have shown that most of the high school students who drop their courses or do not graduate have a part-time job (SOURCE:GOOGLE).Beside the grades it is clear that teens who work after school also are less likely to participate in extra-curricular activities – clubs, sports, and community service projects – which not only impress college admissions personnel, but help build positive attitudes towards school. The more hours teens work, the more likely they are to be absent from school.

Personally I have an example in that sense that i would like to share wih you.My elder sister used to have really good grades while she was in high school.Once she went to college she decided to have a part time job.At the very beginning it was not too hard for her because she was enjoying her first job.Then she could't afford it anymore and that was affecting her grades.By the time she figure out that she needed to stop her job ,it was too late so she failed.Since then my parents are not allowing us to have a part time job while we are in college.