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This program is based on a four-year student, requiring 12.5 hours of service a year (6.25 hours a semester) to reach the mandatory 50 hours. The purpose of this program is to “Promote a spirit of Christian service among the students and challenges them to use their gifts, talents, and time for the service of others," (Veselis).
Students in school grades 4 through 12 are welcome to participate. Age is less important than maturity, the ability to follow rules, and the motor skills to handle a firearm or bow safely. The 4-H slogan is "Learn by doing". Students are given a period of classroom training followed by hands on training.
4-H is a U.S.-based network of youth organizations whose mission is "engaging youth to reach their fullest potential while advancing the field of youth development". [1] Its name is a reference to the occurrence of the initial letter H four times in the organization's original motto head, heart, hands, and health, which was later incorporated into the fuller pledge officially adopted in 1927.
Jessie Field Shambaugh is called the "Mother of 4-H." She started after-school clubs in 1901 while teaching at Goldenrod School in Page County, Iowa. She was born near Shenandoah, Iowa on Sunnyside Farm to Solomon Elijah Field Sr. and Celestia Josephine Eastman Field, she graduated from Shenandoah High School in 1899 and Tabor College with a ...
The rules, first introduced last fall, are meant to help Iowa school officials navigate parts of Senate File 496 as it pertains to informing families about a student's gender identity, the law's ...
Written comments can be sent to the Iowa Department of Education's general counsel, Thomas Mayes, by email at thomas.mayes@iowa.gov, by calling 515-281-8661 or written comments can be addressed to ...
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The bill allows parents of K-6 students to hold their children back a grade if they aren't reading proficiently, and provides personalized reading plans to students.