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10-01-2009

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Subject: Half of Public Schools Require Community Service

According to the Kansas City Star, in an article titled Volunteering is a requirement at Florida high schools:
    "About half of U.S. public schools require community service, up 20 percent since 1979, according to a national study."

And as long as we're scanning the article, the author asks and answers the question:
    "What does this have to do with high school education?

    Everything.

    The three - and almost all other South Florida high school students - have to venture outside of the classroom to earn their diplomas, doing what schools call 'community service.'    "

The article describes one student, working for the Humane Society, who:
    "changes litter boxes and puts down fresh newspaper for about 100 cats."

Well it's better than having kids learn about U.S. history or the Constitution. Wouldn't want our schools to be training any more rabble-rousers and stirring up trouble. And in the new make-work "volunteer economy", knowing how to clean a litter box is very likely to be one of the more valuable skills.
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