07/30/09
most of yall are wrong
by killmelater
some yall are wrong about job corps. job corps is an excelent place to be. when i first went there in 2001 it was fukin awsome, you got to go on day pass everyday, you only had to be there for a week before you can go on a weekend pass, yes the food was sh1tty, but so what IT WAS FUKIN FREE STOP BITCHIN. but then we had dum fuks come in and make rules strict like u had to be a gold card to go on day pass, u had to stay for a month before u can go anywhere, makin the beds was not hard ooo i dunno why yall are bitchin about that. now the table manners. I DONT THINK SO. its not like they had a fukin security guard there making sure u ate properly, and held ur fork properly, and made sure u use a napkin, get real they didnt give a shlt about table manners, and roll call OMFG IT ONLY LASTS 5 MAYBE 10 LOUSY MINUTES some times a little longer depends on if anybody had issues or anything. job corps is not only for people thats been in trouble with the law. its to help people get back on there fukin feet yes there where a few people there that was court ordered to go to job corps or they would of ended up in jail big woop, job corp had alot of things to do. they had a pool hall, a big gym, sports like softball, volleyball, basketball, football, they even had outings like river rafting trips, camping trips, goin to BSU games, boise hawk games, and goin to the those outing WHERE FREE. didnt have to pay a fukin dime, if you didint like the food there. THEY DO HAVE A STORE RUN LIKE ONCE A WEEK OR 2 WHERE YOU CAN GO TO THE STORE AND BUY UR OWN FOOD. they have a clothing run ever couple months you get 100 dollars FREE to buy new clothes, they have a mall run like every week or 2, go to the boise mall for 4-6 hrs and hang out a the fukin mall, its not like your trapped there and have to stay there for ever. u do get chances to get off center for a while. so stop givin shlt about job corps cause its actually a nice place to go to. YALL JUST FUKIN DONT SEE IT. HAVE A GREAT FUKIN DAY
- Pros: none
- Cons: none
06/22/09
Please Read this before you send your kid there.
by valtrajay
If your son or daughter has never had a felony, misdemeanor, or has never been in trouble with the law, I do NOT recommend this program for them. My boyfriend is currently there, and when he got there, it was WAY different than we had expected. He's one of the only ones there WITHOUT a "record". He's one of the ONLY ones there WITH a high school diploma. The admissions person did NOT warn us that this is similar to a reform school, mainly geared towards helping "troubled" kids. This institution is VERY strict. They have roll call three times a day, teach you proper table manners, make you make your bed every single morning in a perfect degree angle or else you get marked down, you are on a "point system" and can only leave campus a certain ammount of times a month, everything that goes in has to go through security, I could go on. It's like a lesser version of juvenile hall. My boyfriend is treated like a criminal, he's done nothing wrong. He's only been there for two weeks and hasn't even had ANY training yet. I'm not even over hyping this up. My boyfriend went to this place as a last resort because he applied for 67 jobs, even at fast food places over the last 9 months and got NOTHING! Only two interviews, he even logged everything down in a journal. The current economy sent us to Jop Corps. We thought it would give him the right training to get a job so that he could make a decent living. Well, now it seems like that along with the "job training" they are trying to teach him "proper life skills" that he already knows! They have "how to be nice to people" classes. You don't even have access to computers, unless you get the proper amount of "points". They even have a person come in and "inspect" your dorm room in the middle of the night to make sure you are "sleeping INSIDE of the bed, instead of ON TOP of it." You can't walk past the flag pole or into the parking lot, or else you are considered "absent without leave". I wrote a letter to him and he had to open it in front of security. If you're expecting it to be similar to a college dorm room, you're wrong. The admissions people NEVER mentioned to us "Well, we should warn you, the majority of students we have here are here to improve their lives because they have a history of misbehavior with the law." But we had none of that. We figured that it was going to be just a bunch of normal kids like my boyfriend trying to get a job...but there is so many rules there, it's not funny. No one ever told us that it was either "jail or job corps" for some of these kids. A lot of these kids HAVE to be in job corps just to escape being in jail... Don't get me wrong, it's good to have these types of programs for these kinds of kids...but shouldn't they have at least warned us? Or how about they have seperate facilities for kids who have a history of misconduct and kids who don't? Because my boyfriend shouldn't be treated like a criminal and have all these restrictions when he's already graduated high school, and has never EVER been in trouble with the law. Sorry, but they should have warned us. Job corps is NOT what we expected.
- Pros: Last resort at job training-teaches life skills
- Cons: Tight security, no freedom, treat child like criminal
05/04/09
disappointed
by flabbergased1
This place is no place to send your kids. It is not a safe learning enviroment. The medical clinic over medicates its inmates and as the review before states the food is bad. Not only that if you have bought into the whole idea that your kids will leave this place better or going to get and learn a trade your parents will be disappionted.
- Pros: very few
- Cons: unsafe
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