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Men do not necessarily have to be a teacher to become a role model. Kids at these ages are also doing sports and activities on the weekends, well maybe a small majority is, but it should not be discounted that men can impact children's lives in other very positives ways outside of the classroom too.

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Optional weekend activities are (potentially) a tiny percentage of time vs mandated school time. There's really no comparison.

This is slowly getting disproved -- http://freakonomics.com/podcast/when-helping-hurts/

I re-listened to this after your link.

The take away is that intervening in at-risk kids life can lead to both negative and positive outcomes and that it's important to further study which interventions are successful and which are hurtful.

This says nothing about children not at-risk. Furthermore it suggests there is the potential for really powerful intervention programs for at-risk youth.

Basically, if you want to volunteer to help the children please make sure you carefully select which program you help with.

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