Company Support for Community Education
             In this paper we will discuss how implementing different education release policies within our company would allow each employee "time off" for their children as well as the communities educational needs. Our focus within this paper will be to evaluate what the benefits and implications of such a policy adopted by our company would be. We will discuss the benefits and implications on our service levels and our finances. We will also discuss how this policy will benefit the community in general. In further discussion, we will evaluate how our company plans to implement this type of a policy. Our analysis will determine if a "time off" policy would be well received. It will also be important to determine how or if the employees will use or misuse such a policy if we want it to be successful. We hope to conclude that the foreseeable effects of having a policy like this for employees will be beneficial for the moral of the employees and the company.
             When defining home and community education Susan Thurman, a family and consumer education major from Brigham Young University indicates, "Home and Family Education is an integrative profession which provides a holistic approach to the study of home and family." Susan continues to elaborate on the benefits of Family and Community Education by writing "Students participate in the BYU-Idaho Family and Consumer Education Association which highlights service, professional, and social development.
             After defining in one perspective just what family and community education means we must then first ask why such a policy would be a good benefit for employees and the company. The answers that come to our minds almost immediately are the obvious. Who would not want to spend more time with their children by being there to watch them develop in their learning environments? Seeing children learn is one of the best experien...