Reply to Middle school service hours?

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "Middle school service hours?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Middle School service hours are ridiculous.  They used to be a requirement of all 8th graders taking Civics (gen ed/honors/AAP).  It became extremely difficult for kids to fulfill these hours unless they happened to be in Scouts or heavily involved in their places of of worship.  Many kids did not fall into either of those categories and most places that offer volunteer opportunities do not want kids under 16.  It then became an enormous burden on parents to volunteer alongside their 8th graders in order to get hours.  In other cases kids were getting hours by helping teachers with classroom cleanup and other tasks which sort of defeated the purpose of getting kids to volunteer.  The requirement disappeared with Covid.  It's absurd to bring it back now.  Not all kids have the ability to volunteer.  They may be watching younger siblings, helping parents care for aging grandparents, or doing other things that are family priorities, none of which qualify as "service hours".
For goodness sake, service hours aren't even a high school graduation requirement.  Why are they a requirement in 8th grade and tied to a Civics grade?

*NJHS/NHS service hours are different.  Nobody HAS to be in one of those.[/quote]

I totally agree. Absolutely ridiculous.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics