1. It's about time they stopped pretending that it is a good thing.
2. It's too stressful for the school, the parents and the companies that employ them.
3. No one (except teachers) enjoy having work experience pupils with them. Most people think that if they wanted to become a teacher they would have done.
4. The current year 10s and all those following them have to stay in education for another 3 years, so what's the point?
5. Lots of people get put off their intended career by work experience. If you want to be a brain surgeon and you get work experience in a hospital doing fetching and carrying and cleaning up bodily fluids when you are an immature nerdy, clever 15 year old with poor social skills you might not understand the 'experience' is totally different from reality.
6. Some people love their work experience but I haven't met anyone who think it helped them get a job later in life.
7. Some companies use work experience and internships as free labour (particularly after Uni in the arts) and that meeds to stop.
8. It's time to understand that the best experience of work is about the wage packet at the end of the week or month. Even people who love their jobs don't do it for free and we should be teaching children how to properly value themselves.
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