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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What most of you don't realize, is that the concerned persons are worried about the PRINCIPLE of "SSL hours", and not about how "easy" they are to acquire.

Quite a few believe that such things are precedent to much greater, much worse requirements to receive something the tax payer has already paid for.

It should be enough these students will eventually compensate the system by providing additional tax income later on in their lives, and adding tacing on meaningless and trivial requirements to show that you have received a public education.[/quote]

1) Tax payers do not pay for your kid to graduate. 
2) What much greater, much worse (because what can possibly be worse than serving your community, the horror!!) requirements are you worried about?  If you're worried about the school requiring a horribly designed and executed science experiment completed almost exclusively by the parents, they already beat you to it. 
3) Next time my kid fails to complete an assignment, I'm going to have him tell his teacher that his future taxable income is compensation enough for her. 
4) You're a moron. [/quote]

Most public places are funded by and are maintained by government institutions... Anyways, what I take from this is that you believe that children(or teens) are obligated to compensate aparticular sytem with little reason to do so, fascinating.

How does a "failed science experiment" have to do with kids being forced to perform frivolous and tedious tasks, or other jobs that don't require much skill but are more "fun". Which might I remind some people is NOT the intended use of this program, so it has already failed in what it has sought to do. You may as well only accept students to colleges who have already had jobs in their teen years, at least they would have already had SOME if not more experience in the real world than those with just SSL hours.

Well... Yes, if you have had been paying attention in school yourself, maybe you would understand that is how government works(at least in the US), they provide you with a foundation to build off of, and the attentive and "smart" students often lead successful lives earning greater incomes, and thus they receive pretty decent returns from the student overtime.

One last thing, taxes cover ALL if not most public utilities that are not already funded by various charities aimed at supporting other facilities.[/quote]

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