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Seniors (18) Leaving School For a Call?
i know there is a Juniors Being Pulled From School to Go on Call post but what about seniors that are 18 years old? do they get to leave school for a call?
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Permalink Reply by christopher shane messer on
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hi i was a senior in high school i left also
the last picture is of my truck
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Permalink Reply by John Dobson on
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My thought is NO, We have been putting out fires for a couple hundred years with out you. We can manage another year. Education first there will be more fires and EMS calls in the future.
When you are older you will feel the same way. A few more years and calls won't be a big deal anymore. A few more years and you will wonder why your going to some mess that turns out to be alot more work than you want to do.
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Permalink Reply by Nate on
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Took the words right out of my mouth. Heck, I am only starting my 3rd year, and already the big adrenaline rush has worn off. The tones drop, and its time to work. A great day for me is when my pager stays still and quiet, that way nothing has happened I am needed for. The rush wears off, then it is just another job. Get your education. After high school, go to whatever you can make it to. You are in school to learn. And Mike, yes, senior year might feel like a waste, but it is all for a purpose. Enjoy being a senior, because then it is the real world, even in college. There will always be another alarm, another 10-50, another fire, another EMS assist. Don't be in too big of a rush. The more calls you run, the more things you see. Just after these few short years, I wish my head could forget what my eyes have seen.
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Permalink Reply by Vic Silverfish on
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No, it's a distraction to the rest of the class, and you really should focus on smartening up while you have the chance. You don't want to be the guy writing run-on sentences full of misspellings on some Internet chat board do you?
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Permalink Reply by Louise Thornton on
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To let you know that Phoenix has a new high school that concentrates on fire service as the basic training to fire service. They do still have all of the other classes that is required to graduate but after graduation they will be ready for the fire service. The kids have their own Turn Outs and they also have the opportunity to go to a fire ground to observe and help with clean up. This is done as apart of their education during the last 2 years of high school.
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Permalink Reply by Robert Champion on
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It is our company policy to not except members that are currently enrolled in high school. It works well for us.
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Permalink Reply by Gregory Borg on
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In high school we learned punctuation and to capitalize "i". Stay in school!
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Permalink Reply by Mark Oomkes on
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Not sure what this has to do with anything, but I hope everyone is OK.
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Actually, this would be age discrimination, so I highly doubt that this really happens based on age alone.
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So do they get to leave for fires?
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Just thought of a different side to this argument. God forbid something happens to the kid while on scene, but if it does, who is liable? I remember in high school I was still technically under the supervision of my school until I had either gone home, or it had been 30 minutes past when school got out. Just a thought, but pulling from high school would cause a huge dilemma if something was to happen to the kid.
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The only fires they are allow are the training fires during their Sophomore and Junior years and real scenes when they are 2nd semester Juniors and Senior year and then they respond from a station and as a class.
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