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Rappahannock’s Comprehensive Employment and Training Act’s summer program ended last Friday. After listening to complaints and criticism from several concerned citizens, we have a few suggestions on handling next year’s efforts.
No one will disagree that jobs for teenagers are scarce in the county. Any program that can provide gainful employment is welcome. However, from our personal observations, we feel that too many of the kids in CETA are taught that they can get something for nothing, with the federal government footing the bill.
With federal regulations that prohibit placement of CETA workers in any profit-making organization, the program directors were hard pressed to find supervised work for the 22 county youths in the program. We think it would have been much wiser to stick with just the jobs in the county offices, schools, and Piedmont Environmental Council—all positions that were adequately supervised, where the CETA participants accomplished something of value and received some beneficial job training experience.
This would have eliminated most of the program’s abuse—abuse that arose from boys and girls primarily involved in outdoor clean-up and maintenance work with absolutely no supervision. We can verify that the honor system didn’t work with several of these groups left on their own with orders to shovel dirt, cut vegetation or transport gravel on a hot summer afternoon. We also question the qualifications of some of the supervisors. Volunteers may be as scarce as jobs but an adult who would give his charges instructions based on racial prejudice certainly isn’t
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