HOW TO INVOLVE YOUNG IN COMMUNITY SERVICE
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Description of idea: (1) To provide them with basic process management kit e.g. simple how to take part advice ; (2) To pay each a participation allowance to cover transportation and stationery costs. (3) Provide a call centre to facilitate two-way communication with agency head quarter to back up such service. (4) Create employment opportunity at the same time.
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or you can just force them to go around with a tin can to ask for donations on saturday afternoons by withholding their result slips
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Cut down their workload- less tests & homework, no going back to schools on sat & holidays. That will give them more time to do community service.
Don't think they need allowance for transport etc. cos I'm sure they won't mind helping if they have the time.
Less red tapes & rules, give them a free hand to organise activities they like rather than just selling flags.
Also those who volunteer a lot should get extra bonus points for priority to get into U. -
community service...
has got nothing to do with points to go to uni or school work or whatever...
whatever happened to "charity"?
or is it a matter of WIIFY in everything these days?
what's in it for you?
have we grown too cynical that even charity has a price? -
+1Originally posted by the Bear:community service...
has got nothing to do with points to go to uni or school work or whatever...
whatever happened to "charity"?
or is it a matter of WIIFY in everything these days?
what's in it for you?
have we grown too cynical that even charity has a price? -
The problem is most of the youngsters do charity for the sake of return...Even flag day, i see most of them sian sian one.....
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because thats not charity, thats called forced labour, they don't have a say in this, and if they don't "go out to stand around" long enough, they won't get their results at the end of the year,Originally posted by sans-culotte:The problem is most of the youngsters do charity for the sake of return...Even flag day, i see most of them sian sian one.....
at least thats what i was told when i was in sec school
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OMG, same here. Also nowadays schools only emphasised on getting gd academic results..Originally posted by oldbreadstinks:because thats not charity, thats called forced labour, they don't have a say in this, and if they don't "go out to stand around" long enough, they won't get their results at the end of the year,
at least thats what i was told when i was in sec school
Our education system not doing its part also..
Society structure is also another factor. Everyday everyone is busy walking down the street to either go to school or go to work. Nobody really wants to "fang man jiao bu, kan kan zhou wei de ren."
Maybe that is the bad thing about globalisation. Everything paces fast and no time to concern about other things rather than yourself. -
So, all the problems such as high cost, class society must be solved first before we can have a more gracious society where youths will do community works with a peace of mind.Originally posted by sans-culotte:OMG, same here. Also nowadays schools only emphasised on getting gd academic results..
Our education system not doing its part also..
Society structure is also another factor. Everyday everyone is busy walking down the street to either go to school or go to work. Nobody really wants to "fang man jiao bu, kan kan zhou wei de ren."
Maybe that is the bad thing about globalisation. Everything paces fast and no time to concern about other things rather than yourself.
If youths have to worry so much about tomorrow like their parents, how could the society blame them for apathy. "Wo man yao mien tui sian shi" - we have to face the realities of life in whatever we expect of the youths of tomorrow. -
today the office people appeared with a sheet full of sticker hearts...
and told us all to ante up some dosh coz the organisation is making sure that we "donate" a certain amount of money for the President's Challenge...
i wanted to give $10 to buy one of them hearts in order to write "i was forced by my organisation to give $10"... but the bosses heard me and rejected my "donation"..
so, if people can do this, i guess the young learn this way...
very machiavellian isn't it? -
The kids do community service to meet the criteria of certain no. of CIP hours they need to do every year. U can say if they are not forced to do it, they most likely won't cos of heavy sch. work, project work, tuition etc
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The Chief Justice held the book in his hand and administered the oath to the incoming ministers one by one that "I affiirm that I ...shall bear my true faith and allegiance to the republic ..."
The words "true", "truth", "faith" and "allegiance" were sworn to or affirmed by minister after minister many times. They struck me as awesome words of honour of men of the greatest talents in the country attested in the presence of all dignitaries and administered by the CJ.
Perhaps, going by the oaths and the honours of these words, plans will now be announced to improve all aspects of governance...to truly serve all Singaporeans with true faith and allegiance to all Singaporeans (Republic)
Since feedbacks were given on many occasions in the past through various channels. Did the ministers truly and faithfully understand problems and will attend to them truly and faithfully to all. Why is there a need for another different round of feedbacks from the young or anybody else. Perhaps, by now the problems of the young were already recorded in past feedbacks given on so many occasions. Were there true understanding and faithfully discharge of talents to understand all their problems?
Must we wait for more time and more committees to go through the motion of justification or presentation or will there be true and faithful understanding of problems reported previously in order to remake ourselves.
Which is which? More feedbacks or more solutions of problems already presented previously by the youths on many occasions including some on TV debates. If ministers are to bear true faith and allegiance, then forthright answers to such queries may be in order.
The youths perhps will want to know what true faith and allegiance will be served in the face of earlier feedbacks on many occasions. They are now being called upon to serve the nation and will need to know many unanswered questions.