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<blockquote data-quote="barnyard" data-source="post: 1033450" data-attributes="member: 13921"><p>My wife in an Americorps volunteer this year tutoring math to grade school kids. What a freaking nightmare!!!! The volunteer coordinator (Federal employee) does not return emails, the system set up for tracking volunteer hours does not work with tutors and the school where my wife volunteers, is not following the program guidelines. She is supposed to be working 20 hours a week, 3 days a week, NO special ed kids. They have her scheduled for 25 hours a week, 15 kids (5 are special ed) and no volunteer credit for prep time. Because prep time is not included, she is spending 35ish hours a week doing the work.</p><p></p><p>She has called her direct supe, that person's supe and a couple of steps up. No help at all.</p><p></p><p>During orientation, she was told about all the things she would need to do to be a successful, volunteer math tutor. She added up everything she was told to buy on her own and it came up to close to $50/week. She has to provide all the supplies used, for her and the students, all the activity materials (which is also supposed to research and decide which activities are appropriate, no guidelines or suggestions or recommendations). She was also told that on test days, it was recommended that she bring breakfast for her students, on her dime.</p><p></p><p>The people that are getting paid to coordinate the program are beyond useless and the very definition of 'sucking at the government trough.' It is so very irritating to know that a program with very noble goals is circling the drain due to inept management.</p><p></p><p>From what I have seen, government employees are not interested in working with volunteers, as they do nothing to increase their budgets.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="barnyard, post: 1033450, member: 13921"] My wife in an Americorps volunteer this year tutoring math to grade school kids. What a freaking nightmare!!!! The volunteer coordinator (Federal employee) does not return emails, the system set up for tracking volunteer hours does not work with tutors and the school where my wife volunteers, is not following the program guidelines. She is supposed to be working 20 hours a week, 3 days a week, NO special ed kids. They have her scheduled for 25 hours a week, 15 kids (5 are special ed) and no volunteer credit for prep time. Because prep time is not included, she is spending 35ish hours a week doing the work. She has called her direct supe, that person's supe and a couple of steps up. No help at all. During orientation, she was told about all the things she would need to do to be a successful, volunteer math tutor. She added up everything she was told to buy on her own and it came up to close to $50/week. She has to provide all the supplies used, for her and the students, all the activity materials (which is also supposed to research and decide which activities are appropriate, no guidelines or suggestions or recommendations). She was also told that on test days, it was recommended that she bring breakfast for her students, on her dime. The people that are getting paid to coordinate the program are beyond useless and the very definition of 'sucking at the government trough.' It is so very irritating to know that a program with very noble goals is circling the drain due to inept management. From what I have seen, government employees are not interested in working with volunteers, as they do nothing to increase their budgets. [/QUOTE]
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