Business Bashing

"The West Orange High School Mountaineer Auto Shop is proud to announce its first annual Senior Citizens Oil Change Week,which will be held May27 and May 28 DURING REGULAR CLASS HOURS. { Are the students getting excessive amounts of core - curriculum subjects instructional time?} Seniors will not pay for labor." There are perhaps 10,000 senior citizens in West Orange. If one in four of them owns a car and gets an average of two oil changes a year at $40 per, that's $200,000. For - profit businesses pay taxes, lots of them, and some of those tax dollars pay for the High School Auto Body Shop and its staff.  This program doesn't offer senior citizens a discount for labor, no, it offers them FREE labor. It's painfully obvious that one of the goals of the people in charge of running the Auto Body Shop is to take $200,000 out of the pockets of people who pay some part of the costs of the facility and staff. Why must the public constantly be forced to directly compete with its own tax dollars? What do these students aspire to? I would think that in the not - too - distant future, they will want to be PROFESSIONAL auto body technicians and mechanics. If these free labor programs really catch on, it will be in large part thanks to the {unpaid} efforts of students. I'm sure they will fully understand and won't mind in the least not having public school employees and seniors as their customers. And maybe by the time they enter the business world,more groups will have the opportunity to get no - cost for labor auto body work and oil changes done. By that time, the school may have added no - cost for labor tune - ups,....etcetera, etcetera