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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids attend a private school in DC.   We have a 20 hour family volunteering requirement per year.  I likely triple this, but it's a good guideline.[/quote]

Something cannot be both mandatory and volunteer. [/quote]

Sure it can.  [/quote]

It can be unpaid but the very nature of volunteer is that you freely choose to do something. When that is forced it ceases to be a volunteer activity and become simply unpaid work. [/quote]

At this particular school, it's mandatory in the sense that it's part of the school handbook rules that we're required to sign off on, but lax in enforcement. No fine, no serious tracking of hours, although it's known who contributes and who doesn't and this factors into the school's letters of recommendation for private high schools.   Our private preschool, on the other hand, required one of two volunteer cleanup days or a "fine" that went toward the cost of cleaning supplies.  The fine was only $30 and we opted for that rather than giving up a Saturday for four years in a row.[/quote]

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