I like to help people. I volunteer for all kinds of things because it makes me sad that there arehomeless people, children whose parents don't care, and just sad people in general. I like for people to be happy. So I do lots of volunteer work.
Right about now, they all seem rather pointless. Specifically, one that I spend the most time on. Every day after school and work, I walk to Tulane where I spend about 3 hours working with the "Young Scholars" program. Their slogan is "Taking the Risk out of At Risk Children"
It's all a bunch of bullshit.
1. The children are selected to join the program and then the parents pay for them to attend.
2. The schools the program selects from are some of the better run schools in the area. AKA not as "at risk" as the rest.
I'm there as a counselor. I was told to work with two other student workers to design a curriculum following the guidelines set by Dr. Do-little(the lady over us)
The curriculum we're writing is going to be published in a book under her name. That doesn't bother me. What bothers me is that the entire book will be a lie, so in fact, I'd rather it be published under her name.We're not helping at risk children. We're babysitting and getting paid to do it. We haven't used this curriculum. We're trying, but its based off the fact that we were led to believe we would have the same group of students every day. We are given sporadic sets of students everyday. Some kids I've had 4 times, some I've had once.
And its not just Young Scholars. I'm noticing that plenty of the organizations that are there to help aren't really helping. They're making money. I want to find a good, solid organization out there that really wants to help people.
<P ID="signature"><img src=http://www.angelfire.com/games3/shawn10000/hex.txt height=150 alt="Thanks Shawn!"> "Shhh.. hear the music..!" "what Music?" "The sound of one hand clapping"
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Right about now, they all seem rather pointless. Specifically, one that I spend the most time on. Every day after school and work, I walk to Tulane where I spend about 3 hours working with the "Young Scholars" program. Their slogan is "Taking the Risk out of At Risk Children"
It's all a bunch of bullshit.
1. The children are selected to join the program and then the parents pay for them to attend.
2. The schools the program selects from are some of the better run schools in the area. AKA not as "at risk" as the rest.
I'm there as a counselor. I was told to work with two other student workers to design a curriculum following the guidelines set by Dr. Do-little(the lady over us)
The curriculum we're writing is going to be published in a book under her name. That doesn't bother me. What bothers me is that the entire book will be a lie, so in fact, I'd rather it be published under her name.We're not helping at risk children. We're babysitting and getting paid to do it. We haven't used this curriculum. We're trying, but its based off the fact that we were led to believe we would have the same group of students every day. We are given sporadic sets of students everyday. Some kids I've had 4 times, some I've had once.
And its not just Young Scholars. I'm noticing that plenty of the organizations that are there to help aren't really helping. They're making money. I want to find a good, solid organization out there that really wants to help people.
<P ID="signature"><img src=http://www.angelfire.com/games3/shawn10000/hex.txt height=150 alt="Thanks Shawn!"> "Shhh.. hear the music..!" "what Music?" "The sound of one hand clapping"
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