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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's required for the IB diploma, if you are unlucky enough to be stuck in an IB school.  It's pointless and a waste of everyone's time.  Community service that is forced doesn't teach the kids anything.  They don't even do a good job.[/quote]

My DS is at an IB school and is doing the IB diploma.  The school offers lots of opportunities for "community service" and I agree with another poster who said it's a joke, and I would not define what the kids are doing as community service: being on a panel and talking to freshmen and sophomores about the IB program; staffing their sports/club table during an activity fair during the school day or at an after school activity night; helping out in the concession stand during a sporting event (this one does involve some work.)  I don't think my DS did one thing outside of school to satisfy the community service requirement.  The only service that he did which might have taught him anything was the school's mulch sale: he spent hours loading and unloading large bags of mulch into vehicles and then dropping them off at homes.  When he got home, he was filthy and exhausted and maybe grasped some appreciation for manual labor.[/quote]

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