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NEWS: School Sucks. Have an iPod.

dem_z

United Kingdom

June 2004

JUN 08, 2005 03:34 AM

CULTURE: School Sucks. Have an iPod.

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. -- Plato

I don't think Plato meant "give them iPods".

Unemployed teenagers are being offered £170 iPods to take part in a course aimed at helping them to find work. [...]

Students aged between 16 to 18 who embark on the 14-week course get paid £50 a week for one day a week of work, £100 cash when they finish the course, a further £100 payment if they enrol on a further full-time course at the college, free lunch vouchers and free travel if they live more than three miles away.

Looking at what the course offers I'm starting to see why the unemployment rates are so low. Everyone is doing courses, and so they don't count as unemployed.

The free iPod is subject to completion of the course, which offers team-building activities and life skills, such as how to budget money, CV writing, travelling tips and first aid, work experience and community projects.

brett_bretterson

Goleta, CA

April 2005

JUN 08, 2005 02:19 PM

Where do I sign up?

crazybeautiful

France

May 2005

JUN 08, 2005 02:28 PM

J_Dizzle said:
Where do I sign up?

Ditto. I get a "free" laptop at my school, they should throw in a free iPod as well to yeah make us..umm.."learn" better.

_Elichrusos

Australia

November 2004

JUN 08, 2005 08:38 PM

Damn! Here in the land of OZ, you get free "Graffiti Cleanup Duty" and free "Work for the Dole" with your welfare.

Everything's better in Europe