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11-28-2009
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Academy of
St. Joseph
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Subject: School Requires Parents to Perform Community Service
According to an article by Elizabeth Humphrey titled, School Requires Parents to Perform Community
Service, the Academy of St. Joseph in NYC is now requiring
family members of its students to perform community service work.
The Academy of St. Joseph in New York City is a part of a
growing trend of schools that encourage parents to
volunteer. Opened in 2007, the Academy requires
each family to provide 20 hours per year assisting in
school-community projects or within the school.
[...]
Typically, community service was reserved for middle and
high school, but educators say there benefits to starting
young. When parents and children begin volunteering in
grade school, it becomes an automatic gesture that can be
"reinforced and repeated at home," which helps to foster a
partnership between the school and the home, Coombs
says.
[Emphasis added]
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Notice how the article's author slides right into todays double-speak.
A "requirement" is called "volunteering" and the
mandated program is a "partnership", just like the
public/private "partnership" our government now has with many
of our fine financial and business institutions.
There is no need for the Obama administration to make headlines
by imposing a mandatory national service requirement on all Americans
from the top down when they are already doing such a fine job of
achieving the same results from the bottom up, through our school
system! The community service requirement started with seniors and
was then extended to all high school students. Junior high students
followed, and then the program was expanded throughout grade school.
Now the parents are being required to participate. That does a
pretty good job of snaring the majority of the populace right there.
And it is all happening with hardly a peep of protest from the
general public.
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