Wikipedia suggests that a typical person can harvest 175 pounds of cocoa in one day. Costs are an unknown here, but grossing $115 for less than a day of work is more than many in the USA can achieve.
It's not clear that there is a problem. It seems the family just has a once-a-year afternoon hobby and a privileged busybody with no sense of reality got arbitrarily upset that harvest took place on a school day.
There may be some kind of problem, but the article is missing all of the details we would need to determine that. All we get is: "There is a problem! But I'm not really going to tell you what it is beyond some meaningless fluff. Instead, here is a story about a family who likes to spend time together. But know that they spent that time during school hours, so you should be outraged!"
It's not clear that there is a problem. It seems the family just has a once-a-year afternoon hobby and a privileged busybody with no sense of reality got arbitrarily upset that harvest took place on a school day.
There may be some kind of problem, but the article is missing all of the details we would need to determine that. All we get is: "There is a problem! But I'm not really going to tell you what it is beyond some meaningless fluff. Instead, here is a story about a family who likes to spend time together. But know that they spent that time during school hours, so you should be outraged!"