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Originally Posted by Iliftrocks
Not to threadjack, but...
What if we were required to to everything well intentioned people said we should be required do before finishing high school and college.....
The list is something like:
Mandatory volunteering during school. Some say full time during summer and part time during the school year...
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Oregon will require all high school students who wish to earn a diploma to complete a service learning component prior to graduation as of 2011; it's being phased in over the next several years. Two girls I work with at one of my jobs are student volunteers earning their service hours. The volunteer work allows them to get job experience but in a way that's more compatible with their school schedule than if they were working a regular job. They're fine with it; as they see it, if they volunteer a couple hours a week, every week, they'll have more than enough service hours by the time they graduate. So it's not only teaching kids the value of service, it's teaching them to plan ahead accordingly.