(Jonathan Ganz) wrote in message ...
In article . net,
Pony Express wrote:
During the summer, we run a 'Hood Kids' program
for kids from Paterson Park (a not so nice area of
Baltimore city). We taught them to sail, but they
were far from polite and well behaved. If you
banned the vulgar language, those kids wouldn't
have been able to talk.

Sounds like a group of sailors, and at times... silence is golden.


They also could not
comprehend the concept of de-rigging and putting
things away.


Perhaps you need to find a way to encourage them to do a better job.

Every session had at least one fight
between the kids.

Sounds like an average group of Sailors.

No, these home schooled kids were really great.
Even my son, who is in our high school program
(which is also running) said the home school group
is better than the high school group.
S.

Thats because the home schooled kids get better leadership & support.


We don't deal with kids that are uncontrollable.

What do you do?

IMO it would be more rewarding to teach kids that come in and are
"uncontrollable". And have them leave more mature and
responsable.


I think all kids
would rather sail than put stuff away, but you've got to have guts to
take on the kind you mentioned.

Yelp guts and the willingness to try to make a difference. Who
knows.... one of the "uncontrollable" kids might find discipline and
something positive to focus on. You might make the world a better
place.

"A teacher is one who TAKES what he or she is GIVEN, and GIVES what
cannot be TAKEN."

Joe

In article ,
Joe wrote:
Every session had at least one fight
between the kids.

Sounds like an average group of Sailors.

Sounds like this NG.

Thats because the home schooled kids get better leadership & support.

They're also generally better educated and do better in college.

We don't deal with kids that are uncontrollable.

What do you do?

It's not that we wouldn't want to. We just don't have the staff
resources to handle the issues. We're totally volunteer, except
for the office staff and a few of the regular instructors at our
kids camp.

IMO it would be more rewarding to teach kids that come in and are
"uncontrollable". And have them leave more mature and
responsable.

It would be. Unfortunately, we can't find enough money to hire the
staff needed to make it happen.

--
Jonathan Ganz (j gan z @ $ail no w.c=o=m)
http://www.sailnow.com
"If there's no wind, row."

these days i work cheap for certain things
buy me a plane ticket (NY-LA and back) and a place to stay and i'll sail
with whomever you need me to sail with
teaching experience a given

gf.

"Jonathan Ganz" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Joe wrote:

It would be. Unfortunately, we can't find enough money to hire the
staff needed to make it happen.

--
Jonathan Ganz (j gan z @ $ail no w.c=o=m)
http://www.sailnow.com
"If there's no wind, row."

In article , gonefishiing wrote:
these days i work cheap for certain things
buy me a plane ticket (NY-LA and back) and a place to stay and i'll sail
with whomever you need me to sail with
teaching experience a given

gf.

We're in northern cal. We can't afford the ticket. If we could, I'd do
it.



--
Jonathan Ganz (j gan z @ $ail no w.c=o=m)
http://www.sailnow.com
"If there's no wind, row."

well if nothing else it is an interesting idea to think about
meaning a east -west coast sailing program with sailors that go between the
2 coasts
just given this list and people i know and people you know we could probably
make 2 schools
one here, one there.
gf.

any interest email me:

just don't vote for kerry.......................
there has too be a better choice and i am seriuosly considering what that
choice is.
donald
micky
ross perot!
..................................

gf.