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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]150 hours from Junior and Senior years. [/quote]

This is excessive. What school is this?[/quote]

St Anselms. [/quote]

It's not an hours requirement the way most schools do it. It is a regular part of the school day, like a class block: they all go to work at a location in the local community for several hours every week during the school day (local grade schools, public library, cleaning homes of local senior citizens, working in the Franciscan Monastery garden for food banks, etc.). It is a part of the ora et labora ethos: service work is a regular part of the schedule, just like academics and sports and prayer (or silent meditation, if you aren't religious). It also regularly gets them out of their own heads for a spell at a time in high school when academics are so intense, reminding them to focus on others as well.[/quote]

I love this. I think it would be great if completely baked into the school day because part of what these schools should be teaching is good global citizenship.[/quote]

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