Personal histories ideal for Transition Year

Rather than the scrapping of Transition Year to become a year of community service, as proposed by Friends of the Elderly, perhaps the smarter option would be to increase the number of community service hours for each Transition Year student.

Furthermore, ‘education’ and ‘community service’ do not necessarily have to be viewed as mutually exclusive concepts.

Suppose that in Transition Year (or third year) each student in school was assigned to a person in an elder person’s home in the local community to interview and record their personal histories. Some examples might include: Do you remember the Bay of Pigs in 1961?