<p>She was not interested in any of the ECs offered at school. She considered the pre-med club, but they do a lot of dissections and she is an ethical vegan and is totally against dissections. She wanted a science club, but her school only had the pre-med and an environmental club and she was not interested in that one either. She tried baseball, but she wasn’t good enough. The Latin and Spanish clubs often involved going somewhere to eat where she would not be able to participate because she is a vegan. We can’t afford dance or martial arts. All she ever wanted to do was work directly with kids, but we both tried very hard to find an opportunity where she could work directly with kids and we never found anything. I know lots of teens have volunteered with kids. I don’t know how they were able to find those opportunities. There are opportunities at a nearby library for teens, but only for residents of that city and we are not residents. The local libraries in our city do not offer that same type of opportunity. 
College will finally give the opportunities she has been wanting. Some even have vegan clubs.</p>