Do you really think its ok to let kids "bum around for a few years to get their heads together"? At the expense of the rest of us? If you (collective) have the luxury to bum around, go for your life but you can't expect YAL to foot the bill.

And how demotivating, and what lesson would that teach? The key is to keep the kids engaged and contributing whilst they find what they want to do - the place is already full of teens on YAL "bumming around" with no motivation to do anything but take their dole forms in and get shafted by crappy bosses that exploit their total lack of education.