08-26-2022, 01:50 PM
Diana wrote:
Okay. Then make it voluntary.
Then the incentives must be sufficient to guarantee sufficient volunteering.
Diana wrote: Make it a two year service, full time, and get college assistance for one year (amount to be determined).
Two years of "full time" service, and the only college assistance is some TBD financial assistance for only one year of college? Doesn't sound like much of an incentive to me.
Diana wrote: 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.
Any "service" that was only 13 days in a whole year couldn't possibly offer more than minimal assistance to any community in need.
- There's little to no time for the volunteers to acquire needed training and skills.
- The turnover, and lack of continuity and consistency would be dramatic.
- 13 straight days of service would limit locations served, as too much travel time to and from would reduce the days actually serving the community.
- 13 single one-day-of-service would have to be in the immediate area of each individual "volunteer", which again would result in the services not being rendered in a community most in need.
Diana wrote: 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.
This would exacerbate the above noted lack of volunteer training and skills acquired and available to the communities in need.
Diana wrote: 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!
Four years in the military currently provides more educational assistance than this. https://www.militarytimes.com/education-...its-guide/
Diana wrote: 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.
Sounds like this "competition" isn't fully baked yet, and assumes the service jobs will draw more applicants than openings.
Diana wrote: Edit: Pay them a decent wage for their time. Not extravagant, but certainly more than minimum wage, with the amount to be determined.
Will the pay be the same regardless of the type of service the volunteer provides? If not, won't the lower paying service positions be under-filled?