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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Great idea. Get and stay in shape by doing useful work, rather than useless exercise.
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.