In that it interferes with the childs growth. Also. of course. chronic fatigue lowers the childs resistance to disease. and. quite clearly. it interferes with his receiving a proper education. Migrant children are the most educationally deprived group in the Nation. Because the children of migratory farm workers must change schools so frequently and because they lose so many days attendance. at least half these children are behind their proper grade levels. and no less than 25 percent are retarded by 2 or more years. But young children who spend their afterschool hours working in the fields have neither the time nor the energy remaining to do homework. and they fall further and further behind. It is also quite clear that. in areas where remedial summer schools for these migratory children have been held. attendance suffers a sharp drop as soon as harvesting work opens up. The present provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act. which limit child labor in agriculture only during school hours. does not give our children any protection against accidents suffered in farm employment or against unhealthy overwork. The present provision does not even give any real assurance that migrant children will be able to obtain a normal education. I urge the House to correct these inadequacies by adopting the bill. S. 1123.
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