Posted on 05/29/2022 8:16:53 AM PDT by Leaning Right
A group of Iowa students is stepping up to help community members get their yards ready for the summer — and they’re earning physical education credit in the process!
High school students at the Alternative Learning Center in Dubuque spent the last two weeks of the school year getting their hands dirty, Tim Hitzler, the social studies teacher who started the program, tells PEOPLE. They’ve signed up to help the elderly and those with disabilities with garden work, cutting down bamboo, and even tending to chicken coops...
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I did a quick search to see if the program is still in operation, but I couldn’t find anything. Given that it’s an “alternative” school, one can only hope that nothing bad happened.
Each of those students do more useful work in one hour than our congresscritters do in an entire career.
It’s an excellent idea 💡
Working with adults is one of the best ways to pass on culture.
When most people were sole proprietors, the kids were involved.
And learn ten times more than the idiots who take CRT crap courses
This is a great idea. The kids are getting exercise, getting out in the fresh air, and helping the elderly. Win win.
Great
Lots of small universities and colleges do “giving back” things like that. It is a great way to help the maturation of students. Instead of living entirely in their cloistered thought and social bubble.
To be greatly commended.
Would this qualify as wokeness?
If it’s an ‘alternative’ school, this is the closest most ‘students’ will ever get to honest work. Kudos to them if the whole operation isn’t a scam.
At my university, members of the football team secured some spending money by this type of program. At the time I was washing dishes for the same reason. I saw some of the yard maintenance athletes and a lot ot the time they were allowed to “work” but not be supervised. I thought of it as a “graft “ job at the time, like a way to get some scholarship players some extra money.
But I agree that stundents doing anything productive is good for their education.
“At my university, members of the football team secured some spending money by this type of program. At the time I was washing dishes for the same reason. I saw some of the yard maintenance athletes and a lot ot the time they were allowed to “work” but not be supervised. I thought of it as a “graft “ job at the time, like a way to get some scholarship players some extra money.”
A few years ago a NY university was sending football players to Florida to “work” in construction.
At the end of summer they were layed off and drew unemployment.
A marvelous innovation! For the most part, regular contact with us elderly folks exposes teens to the life and times results of morals and self control.
Probably depends on which neighborhoods they are dispatched to.
One of the primary reasons student athletes are no longer permitted to have a job. Too much chance for pay-to-play by fat cat boosters. Granted their all on full ride scholarships, but they don’t have access to cash for other things. Keep this in mind when we hear stories about them selling their swag.
I’ve organized several community clean-up, fix-up events and it is amazing how willing people are to step up and help others if the event is well planned and they are asked. Most people just don’t know how to do something for others on their own.
“One of the primary reasons student athletes are no longer permitted to have a job. Too much chance for pay-to-play by fat cat boosters. Granted their all on full ride scholarships, but they don’t have access to cash for other things. Keep this in mind when we hear stories about them selling their swag.”
That was then.
Now they are selling their endorsements.
That is so awesome!!!
God bless them.
It would be nice if more enterprising young people would offer odd jobs, like mowing, around the neighboorhood. It is a win-win for all involved.
So many people need help, even occassionaly, but can’t afford to hire a contracted service for simple mowing, etc.
Cutting down bamboo. In Iowa? Yeah OK. I am learning new information. I did not know that bamboo grew so very far north. Best of luck for the program.
The kids from the ‘Alternative Learning Center’ were also casing the joint, LOL! ;)
I am 100% for using child labor and prison labor for community projects.
At my other farm, the next farm over (many miles!) was a Prison Farm. If you BEHAVED yourself, you got the luxury of tending meat animals, shoveling manure, planting gardens, growing food crops, caring for laying hens, etc. The prison was 99% self-sustaining as far as food went. They also had their own bakery.
Years later I was at a Farmer’s Market and there was one guy selling nothing but Green Beans. I mean, that’s ALL he had to offer. He told me that’s what he learned to grow at the prison farm, so he continued using what he learned after he was released. More years later, he bought 50# sacks of potatoes from me, when I worked for Jung Seed Company. He was ‘branching out,’ he said, LOL! (He’d not been back to prison, as far as I know.)
Another inmate ended up managing a local Dairy. Pretty nice to land a $50K a year job straight outta prison!
These programs work. They should be used more.
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