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Persuasive Speech : High School Kids

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Have we as a community done all we can for our youth, more specifically our high school kids? Have we tried everything we possibly can? It seems like the community as a whole have done what we can for our toddlers, our elementary, junior high, and even for those who find themselves in jail. But what about high school kids? There is limited if any at all programs to help adolescents find their way to adulthood. What if we think outside of the box and try something new? Using deprived dogs that don’t have a home; to help save our troubled adolescences, that way we can teach them responsibility, compassion and social skills. While at the same time finding the unwanted dogs a forever home. We can take shelter dogs to help teach our youth …show more content…

Youths will learn patience by having to repeat commands to the dogs until they get it, it will also build their self-confidence as learn the commands that they are teaching. Having to feed and clean up after the dogs will help to build responsibility, and will also help to establish a routine. Which will help adolescent to deal with what is need in a job, like being on time, following threw and courteous to others. The reasonability of taking care of a living thing feeding, walking and caring for the dog can help them do better in school.
When a youth is lost, and doesn’t know what responsibility is a paw can help. According to Warm Hearts an organization called MacLaren School help adolescence that have been place in detention center find their way. If they stay in the program long enough, they get a chance to see another side of themselves," says Robert Ford, project coordinator for the MacLaren project. "They get a chance to be responsible."(Ford). The youth get to see the dog in a cage just like them and can relate to them, making it possible for the youth to fill for the dog and want to take care of him. Making the dog be the teacher of responsibility. "I think the four-legged creatures can be our teachers as well as two-legged ones," says Ms. Dalton, director of the program. Having to take a dog to the veterinarian, and

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