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'Hold Your Horsepower' By Lyla Fox
Lyla Fox, in her article “Hold Your Horsepower”, argues about teens getting jobs to pay for their cars and cars to get to their job. Fox suggest that teens are starting to work too much at a young age for all the wrong reasons. First, she explains how she struggles to keep her students awake in class and not lose interest in school. Students are finding it difficult trying to balance schoolwork, a job, and extracurricular activities. Additionally, she insinuates it is the parents fault of the dropping grades of their children. She goes on to explain that students are only having jobs to make their car payments. Fox also indicates how peer pressure makes it difficult for students to not fall in the temptation with the popularity magnet. Since

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