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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nothing like mandatory “volunteer” hours, amiright?[/quote]

Or ones you have to pay to get.  My kid’s friends get a lot of SSL hours by serving as volunteer at races for their own paid summer swim team.

Yet some parents say it’s so “easy” to get hours without effort without recognizing their own privilege made it easy and a lot of MCPS kids don’t have the same access to the easy SSL options (which is why you see 25 pct of kids in danger of not graduating due to this.)[/quote]

My father grew up poor and was horrified by the SSL requirement.  He got up a sunrise every day to work before school, and came home after school to work until bed every day (except for homework but I think he often did that while at work).  He said he never could have done 75 hours of volunteering, as the hours didn’t exist.  As an adult, he volunteered a ton.  I really doubt that there’s much connection between these mandated SSL requirements and future volunteerism.  [/quote]

+1 These comments of “it’s effortless my son did by volunteering during the summer as CIT at the camp where we paid to send him all through elementary school” are tone deaf. Some kids are watching siblings or working actually paying jobs during the summer that don’t come with SSL.  I would suspect most MCPS kids aren’t going to any summer camp because of the $$. [/quote]

I'm the PP who wrote that my son finished his hours after 7th grade, and huge assumptions are being made here. We have no money to spend on fancy camps or after school programs. My kids went to a title 1 school and there is an *extremely* reasonably priced program there that does after school and day camp. The reason he was able to volunteer was that we weren't able to afford camps! The way people jump to conclusions on here is insane. Just because someone thinks differently than you does not mean they fit into some profile you imagined for them. [/quote]

Being able to pay for any camp all through elementary school and having your kid have the freedom to volunteer for no money all summer puts you in a different income strata than many of the MCPS students who are in danger of not graduating due to lack of SSL hours.

Rather than being offended that your camp going kid is being lumped into a group with MCPS kids who go to camps you deem “fancy”, maybe you could consider that your statements that it’s “effortless” to get SSL hours because you can always volunteer for a camp are the equivalent of saying “let them eat cake” to a big chunk of the MCPS population.  [/quote]

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