The program is an excellent idea except for on fatal flaw. The problem is the law pass a few years ago, and signed by Gov. Easley that requires K-12 schools to open no earlier than Aug 25 and end around June 10th. College calendars typically don't sync with these dates. Kids would have to go to class well before their peers, and at the end of the year they would have a large block of time in which to get into trouble. Before I'm called out on this, a job or volunteering probably is not an option because lots of times they still need to go back to the high school for regular classes, disrupting shift times. I won't even get into the issues cause by grading schedules. The simplest solution is to give schools local control over their schedules, but the vacation lobby has that tied up tighter than a tick, so maybe we can pass the same law for community colleges. Lester