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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Exactly!    Actual volunteer service.    Not this bs.[/quote]

It’s not volunteer  service if it’s mandatory.  [/quote]

Child Labor Loophole.[/quote]

Honestly, does this requirement exist to teach kids to accept exploitation?  Maybe to acclimate them to no pay for their labor so that someday they’ll be thrilled with minimum wage?[/quote]

AYFKM? "exploitation"? These are opt-in activities. Nobody's being "exploited". Good lord...

Y'all raising a bunch of gold-digging moneygrubbers thinking their presence is a present or some mess. Service learning exists to supplement your parenting deficiencies and teach kids that being of use to their community is part of being in a community. You don't get paid for every little thing you do, nor should you,[b] nor should you expect to.  [/b]Damn.

And it's STUPID easy to collect these things. My HS kid has over 400. My 7th grader has over 200. They are not particularly engaged or generous people, and I've never once had to suggest they volunteer. They found activities they were interested in, and found ways to be of use at the activities they enjoyed. Students get about half of the 75 hour requirement just for in-school activities, probably because you wanky whiners whinged enough that the school started subsidizing your children's community service. If your kid can't figure out how to give 35ish hours of service between 6th and 12th grade, well, congratulations on [b]the leech you raised. [/b]

It's just over an hour every month between 6th and 12th grade. If you're not raising your kids to be at least that generous, that's your L as a parent.

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So… yes.  People like you are trying to indoctrinate kids to perform labor for free.  (Otherwise you’ll call them names.)

I get it.  You’re rich but don’t want to pay a living wage to your daycare providers, and certainly not to your future baristas or burger slingers.
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Fascinating that one commenter thinks I'm "rich" and another hopes I don't talk this way in real life (It's worse: I swear in ways that are censored here  :lol: ).

I grew up working multiple part-time jobs while living in my car, so you're 100% incorrect when it comes to my take on a living wage, too.

Some of y'all aren't as smart, or as psychic, as you seem to think. [/quote]

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