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10-05-2009
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Subject: Working on Political Campaigns is "Community Service"
— Sort of ....
A naplesnews.com,
we learn that:
Collier County high school students who want to get community
service credit for working political campaigns will be able to,
with one catch. The work that they do must be non-partisan.
[...]
"It is not so much the site, but what you do at the site,"
[Diedra Landrum] said. "A student might clean up after a rally,
but not endorse a candidate. They could work at voter
registration."
[...]
But [Chris] Smith told committee members to think carefully about
how much work they let a student do for a political or religious
organization. If the district officials allowed a student to
work for the Democrat or Republican parties, for example, they
could be opening themselves up to allowing students to receive
credit for working for the Nazi party.
"You could be going down a slippery slope," he said.
[...]
The committee voted 4-0 to allow students to perform non-partisan
work for community service hours.
Yes, it is a slippery slope, but they teetered over the edge when
they first began to consider imposing mandatory service on these
children. After that, it's
turtles
all the way down.
It is stunning to consider the level of micro-management exerted over
the the nature of the mandatory service requirement, which is necessary
to stop a student from engaging in political activity which (by what
standard?) is apparently judged to be "offensive" and "wrong". On the
other hand, it is equally amazing to consider how there is absolutely
no vocal opposition raised in having these same students be forced to
attend to menial labor such as "cleaning up after a rally"!
This attests to the true reason for institution mandatory service. If
the idea was to create opportunities for the betterment of the student,
then requiring time-wasting activity such as cleaning would not be
part of the equation. But if the idea is to extract free slave labor
from our youth, then this easily meets the bill.
I hope the pattern is becoming clear.
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