Sunday, November 30, 2008

Mandatory Volunteering

A Keyboard and a .45 has an excellent post up analyzing the PE's plan on organizing the Obama Youth Corps.

As was pointed out, Obama has taken a 'study' showing correlation between volunteering and improved academics and claimed causation. From dealing w/ students who were part of a school enforced mandatory volunteering program, the ones who didn't do it normally as part of their lives did everything they could to scam out of it.

What I can see happening is, like Obama's plan states, it will be through monetary coercion that the .gov will force encourage schools to participate. Suburban and upper tier urban schools will embrace it wholeheartedly, rural schools will be mixed but mostly ignore it, while lower tier urban schools will fail miserably at implementation and participation.

More and more money will be dumped into the failing programs under the mantra of "Do It Again, Only Harder", while cries of "RACISM" (in various guises) are heard from the likes of Jessie Jacksons and Al Sharpton. Schools that actually have some measure of success will be ignored by the media.

Change we can believe in.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

And then there will be (future) parents like me, who will happily tell the school board to get bent if they think my child is going to do any manner of forced "volunteerism" for the President or any other governmental body.

Call it a buggering draft and get it over with, already. Speaking of, was it not supposed to be the Republicans who were supposed to enact this kind of thing?