community service

[katana_1000]

if u dun know i gotta make 30hrs worth of community service by the end of 8th grae to graduate from middle skool.almost every1 has 20(and me) already,since the skool has these little things we do every year to get 10hrs of service.this year we had to buy 3 items and bring them to school so they can be sent to some dumb little 1st graderz.i just asked my parents for $20 and went down to da mini mall to get the stuff(and some tacos).i wonder what we will do next year..(ill do it as long as i cant keep my dignity)

[Oz]

....The pain of community service... well good luck

[Iroquois]

That's not so bad. We had to do 40 hours of community service to graduate from High School.

[loomex]

if u dun know i gotta make 30hrs worth of community service by the end of 8th grae to graduate from middle skool.almost every1 has 20(and me) already,since the skool has these little things we do every year to get 10hrs of service.this year we had to buy 3 items and bring them to school so they can be sent to some dumb little 1st graderz.i just asked my parents for $20 and went down to da mini mall to get the stuff(and some tacos).i wonder what we will do next year..(ill do it as long as i cant keep my dignity)

Remember that you were one of those dumb little first graders once

Where are you at? What country/state/place reqiures community service? Its a great idea though. I think if every kid had to do community service, we wouldnt have all the problems we have today

[Oz]

That's not so bad. We had to do 40 hours of community service to graduate from High School.

Yep, and thats still the rule. 10 hours for 6th and 7th, 20 for 8th and then it goes up to 40 or more. I think in my are its now 50.

Where are you at? What country/state/place reqiures community service? Its a great idea though. I think if every kid had to do community service, we wouldnt have all the problems we have today

Nowadays 'comunity service' is understood to be taking care of your neighbors baby, not recycling and growin trees.. I know some schools offer comunity service hours for helping a school-based group to grow trees and such and for sending your parents to donate blood.  Then again, some people just lie about their actions

[BHOFMX]

when i was in school [ a very small town]
we called it "Civic Pride" and you didn't
have to do, you wanted to!!!!!!!!

buckup katana you'll be a better person
for it!!

good luck

Bhofmx

[ozzy72]

When I was at school we did a work experience week, and as I was an Air Cadet I got to do mine on an RAF base working with helicopter groundcrew (no chance of an aircrew job!), but after each heli had been worked on it had to go for a test flight, so I logged about 30 hours of flying in Chinooks and Pumas on this, and loved it. Other people were working in offices and shops, and I was buzzing around England in a chopper

Ozzy

[Fozzer]

Community Service has a different meaning here in England... ...
If you burgle my house in the middle of the night, remove my belongings, and the police find you, (which normally is very unlikely), you appear before the Magistrate, who has the choice of sending you to prison, therefore putting you in a two-man cell with a very large African gentleman, a bucket in the corner for your ablutions, and feeding you once a day on watery porridge.... ...
OR...
The alternative is, the Magistrate, whilst smiling lovingly at you, will give you COMMUNITY SERVICE, which means you live at home, and get taken out during the day, after a nice egg and bacon breakfast, to cut the grass and plant pretty flowers on roundabouts...
You also go home every night to Mums nice cooking, and get into your cosy, warm bed and cuddle your teddy bear... ...
Sometimes the authorities affix a cool little tag to your ankle which emits a radio signal to the authorities to let them know exactly where you are, (a bit like radar), with which you can impress all your mates.... ...

Cheers...
Paul.
(England).

P.S. ...by the way, the villain has a very nice time, thank you very much, and the victims very rarely get their property returned... ...
So much for Community Service...!

[Hagar]

[quote]So much for Community Service...!

[asnamara]

well that's not as bad as me!

i'm doing the international baccalaureate.. so we have to do a minimum of 150 hours of service

i did 230 over 1.5 years.. beat that

and in answer to OZ...
community service here is not taking care of the neighbours baby ..

and we can't lie about it coz it's supervised by teachers.. we have to visit mental institutions, and elderly houses as well as sponsor an aid group overseas (in my case i helped an organisation in cambodia).. i even went there to build houses for them

it might not sound like fun.. but at the end of the day, it;s rewarding

[Hagar]

we have to visit mental institutions, and elderly houses as well as sponsor an aid group overseas (in my case i helped an organisation in cambodia).. i even went there to build houses for them
it might not sound like fun.. but at the end of the day, it;s rewarding

Seems they got it right in your country Asnamara. Well done.......!

[Fozzer]

[quote]
.....PS. As Fozzer points out, in our country Community Service is seen as a punishment (some punishment

[katana_1000]

well its da stuff i had to buy that made it horrible. Montgomery county,MD is where im required to do 30hrs of community service.i hope next yr i can do sumthing where i can lie about what i did:P

[Oz]

and in answer to OZ...
community service here is not taking care of the neighbours baby ..

and we can't lie about it coz it's supervised by teachers.. we have to visit mental institutions, and elderly houses as well as sponsor an aid group overseas (in my case i helped an organisation in cambodia).. i even went there to build houses for them  

I know its not taking care of a baby, im just saying that some other people that are too lazy to do it think it is. And sometimes the activities are not supervised by teachers but by any other adult person who knows you did the work. Helping out the community is a great thing (even if its a pain..) cause your improving the place you live in in some little way.

[ozzy72]

Fozzer you should be a magistrate, you could wear your leathers (like Judge Dread) and announce things like "I am the LAW!"
And then you could sentence bike theives to really fun community service such as cleaning out the pits in the local sewage farm so they know exactly what they are. Personally I liked the old Roman technique for thieves, tie an ox to each limb and make them head off in 4 different directions. Ouch. Maybe we could do a modern version with Mr. Hondas machines?

Ozzy