08-26-2022, 04:37 AM
DeusxMac wrote:
[quote=testcase]
I totally agree. EVERYBODY can do something for their country. If it were applied UNIVERSALLY, those who would be "unhappy" about "serving" wouldn't have a legal leg to stand on.
Wishful thinking. Without some universally recognized (and agreed upon) national emergency, there would be copious “legal legs”.
testcase wrote: As for "benefits", except for people who made a career out of service spending 20 years or more, the "short timers" would not need to receive / be paid for anything more than BASIC SERVICE. There could be numerous choices of service that could be pursued with terms lasting from two to six years. Inductees could elect to put some of their pay aside for college or other training AFTER they've fulfilled their basic service. All in all, get the little darlings away from mommy & daddy and, teach them / let them learn to be more self sufficient. It's something that MANY of them need.
See “conscription”. Again, without some clear, unifying national emergency, no bit of that could happen here in the U.S.
Okay. Then make it voluntary. Make it a two year service, full time, and get college assistance for one year (amount to be determined). During that one year at school you have a one day per month (1 month = 4 weeks, total of 13 days/year) service you have to do. You can do it all in a row, space it out, or some prior agreed number of days, as long as it totals 13 days in the year. What area would you like to go into? Social services? Medicine? Physics? Chemistry? The government has folks working these jobs and more.
Find you don’t like where you are, as in don’t like physics or biology or whatever as it is done in the real world? Request a change to something else, but put a limit on the number of changes during those two years. Like it and want to do another stint? Stay another two years for a total of four with the same bennies as before, but now two years of schooling assistance instead of one. Find you would like to make a career of it? Fine!
Also, as there will be only X number of positions with some (possibly) multiple number of kids to fill them, make it competitive with high school gpa only a part of it. Don’t make gpa a defining part, as some really bright kids may not flourish in school, but not an inconsiderate factor either. Also, gpa is not consistent across the country as some places have been given the side-eye as to giving grades to get kids through. When the quality of instruction is the same across the country, in public school, private school, or even home schooling, then you might be able to weigh it more. We won’t get into testing standards, as there isn’t enough room on the forum or time in a day to go through it.
The only thing is that if you don’t finish your stint, you don’t get the reward. If you don’t want to do the stint at all, you get no reward. That’s how the game is played. No stint, and you get to do what everyone else has had to do: if you want to get a college degree you work for it.
Plenty of people change their majors after they find out what it really entails. Use it to find out what you want to do.
Edit: Pay them a decent wage for their time. Not extravagant, but certainly more than minimum wage, with the amount to be determined.