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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s like 14 people who work in the SSL office. I think volunteering and service is important, but SSL hours misses the mark a lot of the time. Students earn 45 hours for just taking required classes. I’d be ok with eliminating the requirement and re-assigning the SSL office.[/quote]

I'd be more inclined to keep the requirement if service was actually community service.  Instead, though, students can get hours automatically in class or (looking at a recent email) attending a zoom where they "have the opportunity to engage in a youth town hall with Montgomery County councilmembers".[/quote]

I agree. I think it’s good to introduce teens to the concept of community service, but the way the students get hours for things like this or outdoor Ed really detracts from the purpose. My kids got hours for participating in a fun extracurricular activity and I didn’t understand how they were serving any community besides their peers, and barely even that.

I think it would be better if each MCPS HS came up with actual service projects the students do for half a day in the fall and half in the spring. They could sign up to make and bag sandwiches for a food pantry, sort bags of canned goods donations, walk to a nearby elementary school to read to the Kindergarteners, make cards for nursing homes, that sort of thing. 
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Agree that MCPS organized group service projects would be a much more meaningful and productive way to implement SSL. But that would require people at MCPS to organize and implement something vs pushing the SSL mentorship to outside groups. [/quote]

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