Is it legal or child-labor for a private pre-school to ask preschoolers to wash dishes without compensation?
<p>Is it legal for a private pre-school to ask preschoolers to take-turns to wash everyone's lunch dishes in the kitchen on behalf of all other students? It was a rotational. It was not singling out a specific person. I think two people worked on it cooperatively.</p>
<p>I know a friend in the United States whose pre-school asked them to wash dishes one-day when they were four-years-old. Then the pre-school shutdown some subsequent days later because the nuns ran out of funding.</p>
<p>Is this child-labor/abuse?</p>

<p>This is probably permitted on the theory that socializing children to do household type chores serves a reasonable educational purpose.</p>
<p>If the dishes being washed were from a restaurant unrelated to the pre-school, on the other hand, this would probably be prohibited child labor.</p>

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