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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m an elementary school librarian and I’d love to have A couple of middle school students come over after school to help shelve books![/quote]

How would the middle school student get to the elementary school? Middle school is out by 2:15. Then the bus takes kids home. How would working parents get their kids over to an elementary school for volunteer work?[/quote]

ES offer many evening events that are always looking for volunteers. They can also come in on a Teacher Workday. There are always teachers looking for help or a PTA event. [/quote]

You are thinking of students who have stay at home parents to drive them.[/quote]

Or live in walking distance from an ES, or know how to take public transportation, or have a parent who works shifts as  any one of a number of jobs that work shifts, or require an early start and an early end.  Your inability to imagine that people live lives that are different from you is part of what service learning is designed to address.[/quote]

If schools want kids to do service hours, they should help the kids by providing sign up times and time at school to sign up and offer transportation for them to the service places. Otherwise the burden falls on families and for some it’s too much.[/quote]

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