I do not agree that internships with private business should be counted as civic/community service.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 2:43 AM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Thoughts on national service > > > Judah wrote: > > What do people think about the idea of mandatory national service? > > > > Git 'er done. > > I'd like to see it combined with a revamped educational > system that pushed college out 2 years from HS graduation and > during which time there was all kinds of public and private > internship opportunities. > > e.g., starting as sophmore in HS you would have to do X > amount of country service. you could get a waiver if you had > high enough grades, blah, blah, blah but otherwise after HS: > > * peace corps > * military > * civil service > * corp internship > * private business intership > * others > > This way kids who had their shit together could get their > civil service requirement fulfilled in HS and then go into > business internship for 2 years. Other kids could go > military . Other kids could get jobs building > infrastructure, etc or peace corps or whatever. > > But kids should go to college for more than job training and > because they want too. Corporations and private businesses > should have an easy path from internship to fulltime without college. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:279509 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
