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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Planning ahead for the DCPS Community Service requirement is like gambling.  Last year too many seniors were so far behind on their CS requirement, which had been adjusted down to 50 hours from 100 due to COVID, that they just changed it to 12 hours.  My student who had already banked 80 hours in Freshman year prior to COVID was easily done - and yet also felt a little bit like a fool because they gave up paid income for CS hours in order to get the requirement met early.

Now my 2025 student is trying to get some hours this year, but there's an open question about whether the requirement for this cohort really will be 75 hours.  Will they really jump from 12 hours for the 2023s to 75 hours for the 2025s in 2 years?  Will the 2024's really have to deliver 50 hours?  I'm guessing that this year's seniors will have to do something like 25 hours and the 2025's maybe 40-50 hours.  But that's just a guess based on recent experience.

Basically, DCPS can't refuse to graduate more than half the senior class due to the CS requirement so they will adjust it to something doable in the next 4-5 months if it looks like too many seniors aren't going to make it.  [/quote]

Not sure if "gambling" is the right analogy here. But, yes, this sounds like the strategic trying to estimate the mode of a distribution in the context of imperfect information. 
While we're discussing CS more broadly, you raise an interesting means/justice concern: The costs of crowding out paid opportunities are way higher for those of fewer means.[/quote]

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