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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Omg, I cannot believe you are asking this question, this is so freakin easy! My 7th grader already has over 50 hours. But here you go, since you’re not capable of googling it yourself:

Public libraries
Church
Community centers
Sports rec teams 
Retirement homes
Soup kitchen
Neighborhood cleanup

Not hard. I think it’s pathetic only 20 hours are required. I’m making my kids double that minimum every year.  This generation needs to get off their goddamn devices and give back more of their community. Maybe they wouldn’t all be such selfish a-holes then.[/quote]

I'm assuming you work in the nonprofit space or something? We reached out to our local libraries and community center and they don't have any availability, and our Church only has sporadic opportunities over the year for kids DD's age.

Sports rec teams won't qualify I'm pretty sure.

Retirement homes -- I will look into that, I volunteered at one when I was a teenager, but in my home state you had to be 16 because of the oxygen tanks and fall risks and related liability for children.

Soup kitchen is definitely not letting a 12 year old handle food.

"Neighborhood cleanup" -- I mean to get credit I don't thinks he can just wander around picking up trash and logging it, maybe at your school?

I am a big proponent of volunteering, and actually ran a major service project for a home for developmentally disabled when I was a teenager, tutored homeless children as an adult, but its actually harder to volunteer now since there is a huge supply of Jr/Srs in high school all desperately vying for the same volunteer slots for college and high school requirements.

And we all know a young volunteer is almost more work than the labor they provide, with training, liability, etc.[/quote]

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