If that doesnt work out, go visit a nursing home for a little while, not as "fun", but again, it helps take off the time.
If this is true, then why do we fear it?
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Beaukat painfully thought these words up:
That's where i did my 40 hours
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Why did you have to do 40 hours...at our school we had to do 4.
Work with the elderly, you'll be glad you did!
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So quoth Beaukat:
It's mandatory for all graduating grade 12's and younger.... we can't graduate unless we finish them.
I still say this whole thing is just a waste of 40 hours that the students could better use.
Complete bullshit is all it is
It looks good on a resume too. (My experience with filing at a hospital won me a clerk job at the IRS later.)
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From the book of Callalron, chapter 3, verse 16:
Is just me, or does the idea of "mandatory volunteer service" as a requirement for a diploma strike anyone else as a source of free slave labor for certain organizations? If volunteering is such a wonderful thing, is FORCING me to do it gonna show me how full of rich, creamy goodness it is?
"Mandatory volunteer service" is an oxymoron.
If you like really little kids, you can volounteer for beavers, which is kids from 4-7, and do arts and crafts, and fun games and all that jazz.
The next age group is cubs, which is 7-10, and you'll be involved in a little camping, a bunch of sports and games, and other activities for kids of that age.
Next up is scouts, where you're doing bowling and biking, hiking and canoeing, some more serious camping, and more mature and involved sports/activities. ages 10-14, and probably among the most fun for an inexperienced leader.
Venturers come next, from 14-17, and there, you're no longer a leader, but an advisor, you don't tell your venturers ANYTHING unless they're about to hurt themselves or they ask for it. They do all sorts of physical actibities, more extreme camping (just food and a tarp for a wekend), and they start getting into community service at this level, helping out with community cleanups, fundraising for good causes and such.
But get in contact with your local Scouting office, it'll be a great experience, and it looks superb on a resume.
(I had been a member of the scouting movement for 12 consecutive years, the last three in a leadership role before I was forced to take a break due to time constraints, but I'm eagerly anticipating graduation from university so I can start up again)
No, Really. Bite me.
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The Ruvyenator was naked while typing this:
"Mandatory volunteer service" is an oxymoron.
While it might seem so, in this case it's actually not, despite how linguistically awkward it may be.
Students are going out doing voluntary service, yet it is required of them as a condition of getting their diploma.
Perhaps "mandatory community service" might be more exact, but I always thought community service was what you got if the judge was feeling particularly jolly in court that day.
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How.... Callalron.... uughhhhhh:
Is just me, or does the idea of "mandatory volunteer service" as a requirement for a diploma strike anyone else as a source of free slave labor for certain organizations? If volunteering is such a wonderful thing, is FORCING me to do it gonna show me how full of rich, creamy goodness it is?
You see, our current provinical government is insane.
I am SO FUCKING HAPPY to be getting an exception when I know I shouldn't be. I was supposed to be graduating in the last year of the old program, but I screwed up along the way and have to do an extra few credits in the new, which is a bitchass because I'm not sure whether or not I have to do all the extra requirements or not. If I do, I shall simply say "fuck it" and go get my GED. I'm fucking sick of this bullshit.
You know, I think this will spark a rant. Yes. I'd like that. Ever since I got out of protesting about this I've had a lot of pent up anger.
See, the current Progressive Conservative government is either fucking stupid or hates education. They were elected and proceeded to break all their campaign promises, one of which was not to touch the funding for health care and education. Both were, of course, slashed to the STUPID point. You know how Toronto was hit hard with the SARS epidemic? You know how it kinda got haywire in hospitals and all that? This really, REALLY showed the cracks in our current medicare system. Staff is underpaid and layoffs have stretched them pretty far; my aunt is in nursing and she has horror stories. But that's not the focus of this rant. It's education, which I've seen these guys make their bitch firsthand.
Through a series of cutbacks and progressively stupider cuttings, Mike Harris and now Ernie Eves and their goddamn government have GUTTED education here. Schools have been closed, no new ones are being built and the ones that are still around have their staff cut to insane points. We've had a significant amount of teacher's, student's (which I have participated in. I hate this government. With a fucking passion.), and support staff's strike but no one has got the fucking message yet. You want to know what the response was to a recent catholic school board lockout? Legislation to try and make strikes and lockouts illegal. What the figgety fuck. But I'm digressing again. Agh.
The result of this has been stupidly overcrowded classrooms, cutbacks in programs such as music, art, gym... well, everything except maths and sciences, actually. And even they're stretched pretty far. Teacher, support staff and board layoffs to the point where schools are visibly fucking disgusting. YOU try fucking LEARNING in a school that is so goddamn NASTY to be in that janitors cannot properly clean up blood on the walls, not due to their own fault but due to the fact that there is THREE of them for the whole SCHOOL and they're working SLASHED HOURS. AGH. I HATE THIS GOVERNMENT.
But. I'm digressing. Onto the curriculum!
One of the money-saving techniques our current government wanted to do was slash OAC, or grade 13. OAC was meant as a sort of extra push towards university, with classes geared towards the university level to give Canadian students an extra edge on getting into American universities. We had more credit requirements as a result, but five years instead of four to space it out. But OAC has kind of become obsolete if part of the system, so the PCs decide to cut it. HOWEVER. The credit requirement stays the same, which means free periods for high school students are now a distant memory. Oh, and they've also, y'now, upped the mandatory credits needed, with of course, more focus on maths and sciences, put in two STUPID AND POINTLESS extra standardized tests (a literary and maths test), and, of course, the "mandatory volunteer work" that, in my mind, equals "if you're a student you're going to be treated as bad if nor worse than a criminal. just don't join any protests and you won't eat any rubber bullets."
Agh.
I fucking hate this government.
Edited. Tiredness + anger = wutsa grammar? [ 06-24-2003: Message edited by: Nicole ]
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
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Burger had this to say about pies:
...stuff...
I am Assuming it's different cause your in Kanukistan, For the US Tiger cubs are the lowest, arts and craps stuff, then Cub scouts, then Weblos, then Boy scouts, and Scouts goes on till the max of Age 18..My Eagle board of review was right before my birthday, but I was pretty much a shoe in. After that come the Venture/Explorer thing, but they are separate from Scouts, as girls are accepted in the Explorers. I spent an extra year on as an Assistant Scoutmaster to help one of our leaders for summer camp, cause the other flaky leader called out at the last minute. Interesting experience, especially since no one believed I was a leader kept on mistaking me for a scout. 
I wish i had more time between work and school to help the troop out. 
Girl Guides are kinda like the Canadian and female version of the Boy Scouts, and the like might accept you, and, well, as a former Girl Guide myself I can say that they can be kinda fun. Great for the summer, actually, as that's when a lot of the camping-esque activities take place. If you take charge of a group of Sparks (really little, toddler-esque girls) or Brownies (girls in the 7-12 range. Guides are older than that and there are Cadets if you're insane and want to stay after Guides). It's been a long-ass time since I was a Girl Guide so I'm not sure if they won't accept one of their own or not, but it would be a rather fun way to get your 40 hours, especially if you like kids, want to be doing a kid-esque thing after high school, and like campingish things.
Actually, that's something I might want to check out on my own, now that I think about it. I kinda miss them now .
Girl Guides was okay.. *Shrugs* I was a troop leader, so the power was fun. XD
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Nicole impressed everyone with:
Lots of Intelligent stuff.
I agree wholeheartedly with Nicole on this. This government is screwing over the education system, making it much harder for the now highschool students (cramming the 5 years into 4...thus compressing 5 years of schoolwork into 4).
I myself had witnessed two strikes, one which our school (which was a uniform school...so a Catholic school) had an organized student "Uniform strike" (where we supported the teachers by not wearing the uniforms), which was followed with a 2-3 week complete strike (over the first few weeks of January).
Another strike didn't cause much damage to the school year.
The government puts teenagers through a lot of bullshit nowadays.
Apparantly, so I've heard, that if you test for your drivers license, and Then come the next year, if you test on the EXACT same date as you did the year before, you get an insurance deduction. And this isn't widespread knowledge (the guy who told me about it "said" one of the testers told him about it...but I don't know him well enough, and it sounds like complete bullshit to me)
Real simple stuff. Up until then they'd been using handouts and a really, really crappy training video. They told me that it actually helped a lot. While I was there I worked the sorting lines for a couple hours, just for fun
Food banks are a pretty cool place to volunteer.
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This one time, at OldHickory camp:
Habitat for Humanity.
Totally got to agree with this. Habitat is a great organization.
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Being a lazy bum, I will do neither.
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Where's Waisz? spewed forth this undeniable truth:
I'm not looking for community service hours, I'm looking for something to add to my college applications so that for Junior-Senior summer I'll have actually done something.
