So “community service,” which, by definition should be voluntary (it always was when I’ve done it), is to be compensated by a “tuition tax credit.” Which we pay for with our tax dollars.
What if a young person performing his “community service” is not college material, for economic or intellectual reasons? How is he compensated? Is he just supposed to work for free, unlike the smart, rich kids?
Either nobody should be paid or everybody should be paid.
And by the way, $4K for 50 hours of work averages out to $80 per hour. That’s too much money to be paying to a teenager who hasn’t even started college yet. Ninety percent of the people reading this paragraph don’t make $80/hour for their work. Why should teenagers, for something that’s supposed to be “service,” not “work”?
It sounds like a gigantic boondoggle to me that will cost way more than it’s worth.
