Fifty years ago the government long ago tried (and failed) to create a program that would replace migrant farm workers with high school age Americans.
"Dealing with crops which grow close to the ground requires a good deal stronger motive" than money or the prospects of a good workout, argued a Detroit Free Press editorial (at the time). "Like, for instance, gnawing hunger."
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt...high-schoolers