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Sir or Madam, I've read many of your comments on many articles on this website in the past, and my intention is not to offend you. I believe I AM very justified in referring to 16 year-old kids as useless, as it relates to performing the duties of a laborer in the Highway Division. Point of order, I believe one has to be 17 in order to qualify for summer employment with the City of Warwick. Are they useless with regards to employment elsewhere? Absolutely not. There are plenty of places in the Warwick Mall they could work. My first job when I was 16 was at Walgreens, as a matter of fact. And it wasn't a summer job either. I did it year-round while I was in school. Very few of them have the work ethic or the physical capabilities to perform the grueling labor that is expected of them at that age, which is why many of them go home after the first day, and don't come back. Trust me, I know. Maybe parents should be held accountable for why their kids don't seem to appreciate having a job. While folks are up in arms about exactly WHO is hired, my personal point of view is now, and has always been, to do away with this program entirely. It never benefited me a bit, or got me off the back of a yard waste truck during the summer, and there were days when I could work just as fast, if not faster than TWO summer kids. I'll not be commenting again. Please move on.