Post by justfacts on Sept 11, 2006 10:10:10 GMT -5
Career Days![/b]
Just got off the phone with the Seaford School District. I volunteered again to serve again in another of their "Career Day" events. What's a Career Day event?
It's a day set aside by the District to have many working people come to the School and give the students their insights into what it's really like to work at the various jobs that are out there. What skills are most important. What is needed to get these jobs in the first place. How much they really pay. And, most important, why some of the people like or dislike their jobs.
The questions from the students are thoughtful - and the answers from the volunteers are often brutally frank and direct. Shock often occurs when actual salaries are mentioned - they often differ greatly from what students have heard from "other sources".
The sessions are a reality check that give students about to enter high school an insight into what subjects to focus on. And to those students that are planning college, what are the most important people skills they need to develop to pass a good interview and become a vital employee.
The sessions are planned and organized by a professional group that can get a wide variety of volunteers from many professions and ordinary occupations to participate. The kids often say they benefit from this and ask for more. The fees are moderate.
Now to the point of the post:
I've done this many times for the Seaford District and several times for the Syosset, Jericho, Plainview, Old Bethpage and other School Districts - but just once some time ago at the old Packard School in my own Plainedge District!
Why? Doesn't our Administration think spending this money on the children is more important than a new Administration building?
Hundreds of these Career Day events could be funded just from the money that would be spent to clean up, or to "make the grounds pretty", after the proposed Pickard/Packard deal.
What is more important to Plainedge? Buildings or Children?
Ed.
Just got off the phone with the Seaford School District. I volunteered again to serve again in another of their "Career Day" events. What's a Career Day event?
It's a day set aside by the District to have many working people come to the School and give the students their insights into what it's really like to work at the various jobs that are out there. What skills are most important. What is needed to get these jobs in the first place. How much they really pay. And, most important, why some of the people like or dislike their jobs.
The questions from the students are thoughtful - and the answers from the volunteers are often brutally frank and direct. Shock often occurs when actual salaries are mentioned - they often differ greatly from what students have heard from "other sources".
The sessions are a reality check that give students about to enter high school an insight into what subjects to focus on. And to those students that are planning college, what are the most important people skills they need to develop to pass a good interview and become a vital employee.
The sessions are planned and organized by a professional group that can get a wide variety of volunteers from many professions and ordinary occupations to participate. The kids often say they benefit from this and ask for more. The fees are moderate.
Now to the point of the post:
I've done this many times for the Seaford District and several times for the Syosset, Jericho, Plainview, Old Bethpage and other School Districts - but just once some time ago at the old Packard School in my own Plainedge District!
Why? Doesn't our Administration think spending this money on the children is more important than a new Administration building?
Hundreds of these Career Day events could be funded just from the money that would be spent to clean up, or to "make the grounds pretty", after the proposed Pickard/Packard deal.
What is more important to Plainedge? Buildings or Children?
Ed.