On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Dana wrote: > I think it would be better to give incentives to do it than to make it > mandatory. I think national service of some kind is a good idea, but > some kids may be ready at 15 and others at 19. It has to be useful > service, otherwise it is merely bad custodial care for teenagers. > > I also like the idea of making it not just something that teenagers > do. Plenty of brainpower is currently wasting away in the minds of > senior citizens who eke out a pension working at McDonald's. If you > could provide a small stipend to remove the financial disincentive, a > lot of them would probably love to help. Grandmas running daycares and > maybe grandpa helping out a mentoring program for at-risk youth. > > America wastes a lot of its human resources right now.
This and trading school time or whatnot sums up my feeling very well. +100 'Twould probably help reduce teen violence and whathaveyou too. I like self-solving type deals, of which your suggestions contain many of. =] -- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. Aristotle ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:279529 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
