Service Hours Question
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Anonymous
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By then end of 8th grade, your child needs 15 service hours for Civics. The hours can be totaled from both 7th and 8th grade. Our Civics class ended up giving the kids an automatic 7 hours for just completing the slides/assigned writing about the service hours. If your child joins the National Junior Honor Society, there are different requirements - I want to say 10 additional hours once you join. I believe hours that counted for Civics could also count for NJHS.
In high school, if your child wants the special service learning cord at graduation, they need to complete 40 hours of service while in high school. That’s an average of 10 hours per year. This is not mandatory obviously, but something extra. If your child joins National Honor Society, they have their own service hour requirements. They said hours already completed this year could count. |
Anonymous
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The hours on the website are encouraged but nothing is required.
If your child wants certain seals, recognitions, or cords then they need to complete the hours. |
Anonymous
| Where are these hours recorded? |
Anonymous
x2VOL |
Anonymous
I asked my kid this morning and he said that the NJHS at Carson says that you cannot count Civics hours towards NJHS hours. It was on the contract that the kids had to sign and bring into school. |
Anonymous
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My 8th grader in AA civics did not have a service hour requirement at Longfellow last year. She did do the njhs hours though.
My understanding is Longfellow got rid of them after covid. In high school they get an extra cord or something for doing hours? But not required as far as I know |
Anonymous
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https://carsonms.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/inline-files/Civics%20Service%20Learning%20FAQs%2025-26%20.pdf
Carson's PDF for service hours for this school year is linked above. |
Anonymous
| This must be school dependent, because my honors civics student did not have to turn in service hours (in 2023). |
Anonymous
The PDF does not distinguish between regular, honors, or AAP Civics. Ten hours are required and students can count hours from 7th and 8th grade. NJHS hours are seperate. My kid tells me that he has to click a different button for NJHS hours and regular hours. |
Anonymous
Same as above - have a senior and sophomore that went through Kilmer AAP. If there was any civics requirement it wasn't extra and would have been done through the school/class with no parent intervention/awareness. I vaguely remember them doing some service related projects/presentations for the class but don't remember kids saying anything about needed service hours. Natl Jr Honors Society has hours that are required to officially be inducted. They can be as simple as asking a teacher to help do something after school or during learn and getting sign off by the required date in early spring. Think some hours were literally filing and moving boxes to storage. Older one completed it. The younger one fell short by about 1hr and we really didn't care - actually many students in DCs class(es) didn't bother even signing up for NJHS since it was a pride marker vs something credited toward HS to college path. We just made our kid do/try it anyway because it would be something to start figuring out how to do and build on as a experience pre-High School. Hours can be church youth group, FCPS park cleanup, helping with book sale at public library, volunteer cooking and serving at a shelter. It just needs person from the sponsoring activity to sign off the hours were completed. The sign off can be wet signature on the form that is printed and then student uploads into the system for credit. This is for both middle school and high school. Kids are at an IB school. High School has service hour requirements for National Honor Society (cumulative hours between 9th and 10th grade where 10th grade fall is the marker for NHS requirements to start). Other service hour requirements are to be part of different subject honors societies, like Math Honor Society, Science or History Honor society - so they can get more neck pain wearing each of the different color cords by graduation. Each honor society service hour requirements vary depending on the teacher sponsor/group. Sometimes the bar changes like this year Math Honor Society increased requirements to require something like 20hrs service for tutoring that can only be performed during learn and completed by a certain time cutoff date midyear. DC dropped that one as it would effectively require putting everything else that needs to be done during learn time to the side for that one honor society based on DCs schedule, including an off-campus class where DC can't make it to learn. None are requirements for graduation. Nothing to worry about for MS. By later HS, these extra service hours are maybe something to put on EC for college apps which many do if kid has limited ECs depending on target schools. Something to have something to write about for college essays as many supplemental essays ask questions where doing some sort of service activity gives an EC for DC to have an experience to reflect and write about. |
Anonymous
My kid got their Civics hours helping a couple elementary schools set up for and run their Fall festivals this year, and helping another school with a book donation event by evaluating book condition and sorting them / boxing them up and loading them into the truck. None of those hours can be double-counted toward their NJHS hours. |
Anonymous
X2vol for middle and high Paper for 6th grade |
Anonymous
| How do we enter it? My daughter has hours to enter but doesn't know how. |
Anonymous
She has to log onto Naviance. Then x2vol. |
Anonymous
Our middle school is on paper. Why is it so hard for FCPS to be consistent and send out guidance. |