SSL Requirement - Forced Volunteerism

[Anonymous]

We found a great solution for avoiding SSL hours to graduate. My 8th grader will no longer be logging any more SSL hours thankfully!! Off to a private high school!! Yeah!!!

[Anonymous]

How much are you paying per year so that your child doesn't have to fulfill a community service requirement for graduation? Also, did you check? Many private high schools have a community service requirement for graduation...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What most of you don't realize, is that the concerned persons are worried about the PRINCIPLE of "SSL hours", and not about how "easy" they are to acquire.


Quite a few believe that such things are precedent to much greater, much worse requirements to receive something the tax payer has already paid for.

It should be enough these students will eventually compensate the system by providing additional tax income later on in their lives, and adding tacing on meaningless and trivial requirements to show that you have received a public education.

1) Tax payers do not pay for your kid to graduate.
2) What much greater, much worse (because what can possibly be worse than serving your community, the horror!!) requirements are you worried about? If you're worried about the school requiring a horribly designed and executed science experiment completed almost exclusively by the parents, they already beat you to it.
3) Next time my kid fails to complete an assignment, I'm going to have him tell his teacher that his future taxable income is compensation enough for her.
4) You're a moron.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We found a great solution for avoiding SSL hours to graduate. My 8th grader will no longer be logging any more SSL hours thankfully!! Off to a private high school!! Yeah!!!

That's is just about the dumbest this I've ever heard. Congrats!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We found a great solution for avoiding SSL hours to graduate. My 8th grader will no longer be logging any more SSL hours thankfully!! Off to a private high school!! Yeah!!!

Are you serious? Is it the reason?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We found a great solution for avoiding SSL hours to graduate. My 8th grader will no longer be logging any more SSL hours thankfully!! Off to a private high school!! Yeah!!!

Are you serious? Is it the reason?

Seriously...what a great picture this paints...privileged parents pay thousands to ensure that their snowflake doesn't have to do any community service that might expose him to *those* people...

[Anonymous]

I had to do community service to graduate from a MoCo high school. I worked for pay, too. Volunteering was never difficult to do around my hefty work schedule--the requirements are manageable.

The posters, including OP, who claim that volunteerism needs to come from the heart and be selfless and all that bullshit are mistaken. Volunteering teaches social justice, which is the principle that people have a basic right to safety, health, and dignity. Many volunteers help out because it is what they owe to their community, not just because it gives them the warm fuzzies. Sure--if serving food at a soup kitchen makes a person feel good then that's fine--but the point is that the people who come to the soup kitchen have a right to eat.

Perhaps, while mom or dad is fussing over the legal minutiae of the SSL requirement, the kid is learning something about what it means to be a citizen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What most of you don't realize, is that the concerned persons are worried about the PRINCIPLE of "SSL hours", and not about how "easy" they are to acquire.


Quite a few believe that such things are precedent to much greater, much worse requirements to receive something the tax payer has already paid for.

It should be enough these students will eventually compensate the system by providing additional tax income later on in their lives, and adding tacing on meaningless and trivial requirements to show that you have received a public education.

1) Tax payers do not pay for your kid to graduate.
2) What much greater, much worse (because what can possibly be worse than serving your community, the horror!!) requirements are you worried about? If you're worried about the school requiring a horribly designed and executed science experiment completed almost exclusively by the parents, they already beat you to it.
3) Next time my kid fails to complete an assignment, I'm going to have him tell his teacher that his future taxable income is compensation enough for her.
4) You're a moron.

Most public places are funded by and are maintained by government institutions... Anyways, what I take from this is that you believe that children(or teens) are obligated to compensate aparticular sytem with little reason to do so, fascinating.


How does a "failed science experiment" have to do with kids being forced to perform frivolous and tedious tasks, or other jobs that don't require much skill but are more "fun". Which might I remind some people is NOT the intended use of this program, so it has already failed in what it has sought to do. You may as well only accept students to colleges who have already had jobs in their teen years, at least they would have already had SOME if not more experience in the real world than those with just SSL hours.



Well... Yes, if you have had been paying attention in school yourself, maybe you would understand that is how government works(at least in the US), they provide you with a foundation to build off of, and the attentive and "smart" students often lead successful lives earning greater incomes, and thus they receive pretty decent returns from the student overtime.


One last thing, taxes cover ALL if not most public utilities that are not already funded by various charities aimed at supporting other facilities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Most public places are funded by and are maintained by government institutions... Anyways, what I take from this is that you believe that children(or teens) are obligated to compensate a particular system with little reason to do so, fascinating.

My sixth-grader isn't compensating any particular system -- she's helping particular organizations (chosen by her) do particular things (chosen by her). And the reason to do it is that it's a state requirement for graduation. She was able to figure this out when she was 11. How old are you?

Also, student service learning isn't volunteering.