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Well, also from the John Kerry website, it says that this national service is community service. I looked at it before, and nowhere does it mention the armed forces, except for a tidbit about 25,000 young people improving our homeland security by joining the Police Corps.

Instead these people will be doing:

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At least 75,000 young people will help educate other young people by serving as teachers, teachers' aides, or tutors and mentors to students inside the classroom and in afterschool programs. These students will serve in the urban and rural communities where schools have the fewest resources and students face the largest obstacles to success. Research shows that skilled and dedicated teachers with the right support and aid inside and outside the classroom make an enormous difference in educational outcomes.

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Some 100,000 young people will meet other critical needs: for example, at-risk youths can build low-income housing and get needed training through successful programs like YouthBuild; young people can help older Americans to continue to live independently; and Americans can contribute to keeping our water and parks clean. While there is no substitute for trained professionals, national service efforts like these can make enormous contributions to our country

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At Least 300,000 More College Students Helping America's Children Learn. As president, John Kerry will call on America's college students to join a national crusade to help America's children succeed in school and get to college. Already today, about 60 percent of college students engage in community service. Yet many more students would like to serve but cannot because they must do paid work for too many hours each week. And many other students aren't able to contribute as effectively as they could because of limited training and support. As president, John Kerry will give nonprofit organizations and campus service-learning initiatives the training and support to achieve real progress for children. Young people who make a sustained part-time effort in service will receive help paying for college as well, up to $2,000 per year. For example, under the Kerry-Edwards plan:

Personally, as a high schooler myself, I wouldn't mind doing more community service.

In conlusion,
go away
I mean.. look at it yourself here http://www.johnkerry.com/issues/nat...rvice/plan.html

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Originally posted by icyhandofcrap Well, also from the John Kerry website, it says that this national service is community service. I looked at it before, and nowhere does it mention the armed forces, except for a tidbit about 25,000 young people improving our homeland security by joining the Police Corps.

This is nothing too wild, I mean lots of prep schools already have this requirment (do varying degrees) for their high school students.

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In Ontario (Canada), we have to do 40 hours of community service to get a high school diploma... it's nothing... 10 hrs/year. I got mine by working for unicef, teching some shows at a theatre, and tutoring some kids at my school. works fine.

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Originally posted by DJ_Elyot In Ontario (Canada), we have to do 40 hours of community service to get a high school diploma... it's nothing... 10 hrs/year. I got mine by working for unicef, teching some shows at a theatre, and tutoring some kids at my school. works fine.

yup, I personally think it should be 80 hours.

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Well BUSH had a possible Freudian slip :P

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Bush sought to counter suggestions that there will be a military draft if he's re-elected, but the president almost blew his line. He said that, after a debate with Kerry, "I made it very plain. We will not have an all-volunteer army." The crowd fell silent. "WE WILL have an all-volunteer army," Bush said, quickly catching himself. "Let me restate that. We will not have a draft."

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