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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This must be school dependent, because my honors civics student did not have to turn in service hours (in 2023). [/quote]

Same as above - have a senior and sophomore that went through Kilmer AAP. If there was any civics requirement it wasn't extra and would have been done through the school/class with no parent intervention/awareness. I vaguely remember them doing some service related projects/presentations for the class but don't remember kids saying anything about needed service hours. Natl Jr Honors Society has hours that are required to officially be inducted. They can be as simple as asking a teacher to help do something after school or during learn and getting sign off by the required date in early spring. Think some hours were literally filing and moving boxes to storage. Older one completed it. The younger one fell short by about 1hr and we really didn't care - actually many students in DCs class(es) didn't bother even signing up for NJHS since it was a pride marker vs something credited toward HS to college path. We just made our kid do/try it anyway because it would be something to start figuring out how to do and build on as a experience pre-High School. Hours can be church youth group, FCPS park cleanup, helping with book sale at public library, volunteer cooking and serving at a shelter. It just needs person from the sponsoring activity to sign off the hours were completed. The sign off can be wet signature on the form that is printed and then student uploads into the system for credit. This is for both middle school and high school.

Kids are at an IB school. High School has service hour requirements for National Honor Society (cumulative hours between 9th and 10th grade where 10th grade fall is the marker for NHS requirements to start). Other service hour requirements are to be part of different subject honors societies, like Math Honor Society, Science or History Honor society - so they can get more neck pain wearing each of the different color cords by graduation. Each honor society service hour requirements vary depending on the teacher sponsor/group. Sometimes the bar changes like this year Math Honor Society increased requirements to require something like 20hrs service for tutoring that can only be performed during learn and completed by a certain time cutoff date midyear. DC dropped that one as it would effectively require putting everything else that needs to be done during learn time to the side for that one honor society based on DCs schedule, including an off-campus class where DC can't make it to learn. None are requirements for graduation.

Nothing to worry about for MS. By later HS, these extra service hours are maybe something to put on EC for college apps which many do if kid has limited ECs depending on target schools. Something to have something to write about for college essays as many supplemental essays ask questions where doing some sort of service activity gives an EC for DC to have an experience to reflect and write about.[/quote]

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