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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Great idea. Get and stay in shape by doing useful work, rather than useless exercise.
> Cutting down bamboo. <
Some folks plant ornamental bamboo. Then they are dismayed when the stuff pops up all over the place. Bamboo rhizomes grow horizontally under the ground, and so the next thing you know you’ve got bamboo everywhere.
It is very difficult to control.
I have no problem with that. Doing yard work when the sun is blazing away is a good form of exercise.
The first good idea from schools I’ve heard for a long time 🤪
My first thought was it sounds like a good program but should be longer than 20 hours and does that include the time rounding them up and on a bus?
My second thought was hoping these little angels weren’t scoping out easy targets.
Cutting down bamboo doesn’t do anything but hurt your back. Bamboo has to be dug out.
Yeah it was a hell of compromise. Booster sponsored phony jobs or booster paid
phony endorsements.
Student-athlete in Divison III do not receive scholarships for playing in intercollegiate sports.
They get partial. I went to a D-III school.
What type of partial? Was it for playing an intercollegiate sport?
What a cool idea, I guess at my school they could have filed for unemployment too,
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