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[quote=Anonymous]I want to be clear my experience was pre-covid, so who the heck knows how relevant, but I wanted to allay some of your concerns.

Two years ago (pre covid) the way it was presented to parents (and there was a parent meeting about it), was that they didn't want kids to just go volunteer for a few hours, but wanted it to be a project that was designed and implemented.

My kid partnered with a couple of friends and had a bake sale and donated proceeds to the animal shelter, for example.  I would find it hard to believe that requirements are harder/stricter now, during covid.

The school (again two years ago) formed cohorts of kids who met regularly to plan and develop their plans.  So this group all wanted to help animals, this group wanted to help homeless, this group wanted to help the ocean, etc.  The kids worked independently and with peer feedback to refine their ideas.  It took a few months to plan it all out.

So again, I don't think it could possibly be more involved than that (though stranger things have happened in DCPS).  [/quote]

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