Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and passed on. Or we will spend our sunset years telling our children’s children what it was like in the United States when men were free.
— Ronald Reagan
I believe consideration of a nominal high schoolers’ community service requirement gives students an opportunity to become better stakeholders within the WW-P community. I submitted this request for discussion to a former WW-P Board of Education president and former WW-P district superintendent.
I was told our students are “too busy.” Consequently, it could not be placed on the agenda for public discussion. I proposed that guidance counselors could administer the program to better know their students.
Each student graduating from our WW-P schools should know how his/her local government and our Board of Education operate. Students have a unique opportunity to compare the municipal government differences between Plainsboro and West Windsor.
As Sandra Day O’Connor and John Glenn wrote in a May 13 column in the Wall Street Journal: “American students are alarmingly unfamiliar with the essential elements of democracy.”
Pete Weale
West Windsor
