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Originally Posted by ckelly78z
I think that having their choice on when, and where to volunteer over the course of 2-4 years would get them into responsible projects that they care about with responsible adults (away from the liberal agenda of schools) who have valuable wisdom to empart.
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We must remember this is a big town and jsut to get across town requires an hour or two with traffic. 15-17 year olds don't have a car and normally don't have the time to run around the city with project they actually care about within a 5 miles from home. So many of them ended up like me, cleaning up some grease pit just to have those paper signed.
I can see this. The pig farmer is going to do society some good, so boys and girls, we have a volunteer program here for you kids. Shovel pig poo so you can earn a star in your high school diploma. Woo-hoo.