GigiBowman
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- Oct 21, 2008
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I agree with calling for people to volunteer their services... perhaps give kids a notation of this on the HS transcript for preference...
As long as it is not forced or required for graduation... for there are kids with other responsibilities... like for example when I was a kid, I was working 39 hours a week (1 less than full time, because it was illegal to have kids under 18 working full time during the school year) to help support my family... some have other activities for their future including sports or they are taking college classes ahead of time... ... I cannot see this as a mandated requirement... and I don't think Obama means it to be, at least I really hope that is the case
I agree.
My 16 year old daughter has a 93 average. She's the president of Habitat for Humanity at her High School. She belongs to the Key Club. She volunteers her time for mostly everything that comes up at the school that she's asked to do. She also has a job. She works at the neighborhood pet store which she closes every night as well as weekends. She gets two tons of homework a week and she constantly has papers due, projects due....it never ends. She goes to bed late hours keeping up with her work and she wakes up at 4am sometimes to finish what she could not stay up doing. Enough already.
Some kids don't do crap. I know because I'm a substitute teacher at the High School. They come to school with ipods and I wonder sometimes if the earbuds aren't permanent. Their cell phones are a permanent fixture used for texting all day long. You take it away, anothe rone appears. They don't do homework and they could care less that if they don't complete the handout I give them in class they'll get a 0 factored into their grade. They spend the day half asleep on their desk and they don't participate in any after school activities either. They do however have very expensive jewelry, new state of the art sneakers and perfectly matched outfits, jeans, hair, nails etc. I guess those are the rewards their parent's give them for their good grades??
FORCING my child to do anymore is gonna break her....
but I would definately hurrah if you can force any of those children I decribed above to do a damned thing.
Why do I get the feeling that the kids who already have enough on their plate are going to get the brunt of it.....
and the same old same old is going to happen.
I don't like the word Forced.
They (he) need to think more about this before the InFORCE it.
Maybe kids who don't apply themselves in school will have no choice but to do community service etc. Kids who cut school continuously or get low grades based on incomplete work. But then again....those kids probably won't show up for the Community service either!