What happens if high schooler doesn't fulfill DCPS community service requirement?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:capital area food bank is very easy to schedule and track hours. If your kid is under 18 you have to volunteer with them, but, it is very well organized and an enjoyable volunteer experience.

Completely agree. I did it for a work required volunteer time. Loved it.

Also agree with this. So others might eat (SOME), Bread for the city and Martha's table are also good options. There are also virtual options. One of my kids recorded children's audiobooks for a few hours and she really enjoyed it.

[Anonymous]

No 👨‍🎓

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:capital area food bank is very easy to schedule and track hours. If your kid is under 18 you have to volunteer with them, but, it is very well organized and an enjoyable volunteer experience.

Completely agree. I did it for a work required volunteer time. Loved it.

Also agree with this. So others might eat (SOME), Bread for the city and Martha's table are also good options. There are also virtual options. One of my kids recorded children's audiobooks for a few hours and she really enjoyed it.

This sounds really fun. Do you mind sharing a link to the organization?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I was 17, had an acceptance at the university I wanted to attend, I would tell my parents I wasn't gonna finish the community service.

No diploma?

Shrug.

Pretty sure that acceptance to college is conditional on you graduating from high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:capital area food bank is very easy to schedule and track hours. If your kid is under 18 you have to volunteer with them, but, it is very well organized and an enjoyable volunteer experience.

Completely agree. I did it for a work required volunteer time. Loved it.

Also agree with this. So others might eat (SOME), Bread for the city and Martha's table are also good options. There are also virtual options. One of my kids recorded children's audiobooks for a few hours and she really enjoyed it.

This sounds really fun. Do you mind sharing a link to the organization?

It was a while ago (during the pandemic), but one of the orgs was called Learning Ally. I can't recall the other audiobook one, but you can probably google it. There was also an option to be pen pals to veterans. We tried it, but it required writing real letters and that's taboo to teenagers these days...lol, so we skipped it.

[Anonymous]

Planning ahead for the DCPS Community Service requirement is like gambling. Last year too many seniors were so far behind on their CS requirement, which had been adjusted down to 50 hours from 100 due to COVID, that they just changed it to 12 hours. My student who had already banked 80 hours in Freshman year prior to COVID was easily done - and yet also felt a little bit like a fool because they gave up paid income for CS hours in order to get the requirement met early.

Now my 2025 student is trying to get some hours this year, but there's an open question about whether the requirement for this cohort really will be 75 hours. Will they really jump from 12 hours for the 2023s to 75 hours for the 2025s in 2 years? Will the 2024's really have to deliver 50 hours? I'm guessing that this year's seniors will have to do something like 25 hours and the 2025's maybe 40-50 hours. But that's just a guess based on recent experience.

Basically, DCPS can't refuse to graduate more than half the senior class due to the CS requirement so they will adjust it to something doable in the next 4-5 months if it looks like too many seniors aren't going to make it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Planning ahead for the DCPS Community Service requirement is like gambling. Last year too many seniors were so far behind on their CS requirement, which had been adjusted down to 50 hours from 100 due to COVID, that they just changed it to 12 hours. My student who had already banked 80 hours in Freshman year prior to COVID was easily done - and yet also felt a little bit like a fool because they gave up paid income for CS hours in order to get the requirement met early.

Now my 2025 student is trying to get some hours this year, but there's an open question about whether the requirement for this cohort really will be 75 hours. Will they really jump from 12 hours for the 2023s to 75 hours for the 2025s in 2 years? Will the 2024's really have to deliver 50 hours? I'm guessing that this year's seniors will have to do something like 25 hours and the 2025's maybe 40-50 hours. But that's just a guess based on recent experience.

Basically, DCPS can't refuse to graduate more than half the senior class due to the CS requirement so they will adjust it to something doable in the next 4-5 months if it looks like too many seniors aren't going to make it.

Not sure if "gambling" is the right analogy here. But, yes, this sounds like the strategic trying to estimate the mode of a distribution in the context of imperfect information.
While we're discussing CS more broadly, you raise an interesting means/justice concern: The costs of crowding out paid opportunities are way higher for those of fewer means.