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To: Khepri
Some kinds of "forced labor" could be good for kids.

I understand Japanese schools, for example, have no janitors. The students themselves clean up after themselves every day.

I would look forward to this kind of approach to education, and teach American kids to look after themselves. But I don't think that's what anyone who is behind this silly "community service" sh!t really has in mind.

11 posted on 11/07/2008 9:23:21 AM PST by Alberta's Child (I'm out on the outskirts of nowhere . . . with ghosts on my trail, chasing me there.)
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To: Alberta's Child

Hmm......to curb illegals and their employment here, does this mean the kids will be out picking lettuce, etc? I wonder.........


17 posted on 11/07/2008 9:25:21 AM PST by hsmomx3 (GO STEELERS!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: Alberta's Child

The devil is in the details.


25 posted on 11/07/2008 9:27:11 AM PST by oneolcop (Lead, Follow or Get the hell out of the way!)
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To: Alberta's Child

True - My girls attend for two months each summer. There is a rotation of responsibilities including sweeping, dusting, taking care of the animals and plants, chalkboards, trash, serving lunch, picking up and returning lunch items from the kitchen(they eat in the classroom), cleaning the halls, etc. Kids actually enjoy it as a break from sitting and it’s expected as a matter of course so there isn’t any complaining.

That being said - there is no such thing as compulsory voluntarism and what they are referring to here is a croc.


82 posted on 11/07/2008 9:49:20 AM PST by reed13 (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.")
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To: Alberta's Child

ping


204 posted on 11/07/2008 12:22:33 PM PST by Glacier Honey (`)
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To: Alberta's Child
I understand Japanese schools, for example, have no janitors. The students themselves clean up after themselves every day.

That will never happen in the United States, the janitors' union will not permit it.

However, it is distinctly possible that the janitors will sit around doing nothing all day and collecting a fat paycheck (half of which will be donated to the Democrats) while the child volunteers actually clean the school.

328 posted on 11/09/2008 5:56:39 AM PST by reg45
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