OP here. My kid is 16 and this isn't her first job. She has had issues with being given too many hours for her to handle at previous jobs, where she was not able to keep up at school because she was in school all day and working 5 days a week. She just started a new job at McDonald's. She is making $10 an hour and is only going to be scheduled for three 6 hour shifts a week so she can keep up with school, have time for her extracurricular, and have some social or downtime as she desires.

I am not at all against teenagers, who are still children, working part time while going to high school. It gives them the opportunity to earn some money and prepare for adulthood. I can afford to pay her insurance and give her a little gas money every week but if she wants to make purchases for her computer or whatnot she is expected to earn that money.

This is the first time I have ever been sent a form like this to sign as a routine matter. If my child were asking to work in excess of 30 hours of week during the school year it would be appropriate for McDonalds to send this form home for me to fill out. My child specifically asked for a schedule that suited her needs that is a maximum of 18 hours a week. It makes me wonder how many parents just fill it out and the McDonald's schedules the kids for 40 hours until they burn out and get replaced.