I recently started a subscription to USA TODAY because I live in a city that doesn't provide me with all the news that I would like to read about. So far I have taken to reading the paper while waiting on the pickup line for my 2 girls who do attend school. Sometimes I read later on after dinner. My husband saw this article and he told me to check it out ...
A new form of Catholic education -born of financial necessity - is teaching kids that there is life after high school. It's about time.
Essentially there is a network of 19 urban Catholic schools that combine on the job work experience with rigorous academics. This benefits the students who need help with tuition costs, but it also saves companies that hire these students. These students are learning life lessons more so than most teenagers today.
An interesting quote ...
"In this country teens learn virtually everything they know from other teens. This makes no sense. Teens should be learning from the people they are about to become. When teens finally graduate to the real world - which is not the world of Britney Spears - they have no idea what's going on".
Here is the full article, written by this person.
A new form of Catholic education -born of financial necessity - is teaching kids that there is life after high school. It's about time.
Essentially there is a network of 19 urban Catholic schools that combine on the job work experience with rigorous academics. This benefits the students who need help with tuition costs, but it also saves companies that hire these students. These students are learning life lessons more so than most teenagers today.
An interesting quote ...
"In this country teens learn virtually everything they know from other teens. This makes no sense. Teens should be learning from the people they are about to become. When teens finally graduate to the real world - which is not the world of Britney Spears - they have no idea what's going on".
Here is the full article, written by this person.
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Here's to your girls, my girls, and my boy... may we teach them to be adults-responsible vibrant faithful adults.