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Your MOTHER had you do it: fine, great.  I support that 100%!  The issue here is the government forcing children to volunteer as a requirement of graduation.  People, please think about this: the STATE/GOV'T is forcing this on your children.  Whether the work is good or not is IRRELEVANT.  The STATE (through MCPS) should not be able to FORCE children to do this.  Again, it isn't volunteering if you are forced to do it.

It worries me that so many parents on here seem to not be able to distinguish the notion of state coercion.   Frightening in a free society.  [/quote]

The STATE is also FORCING children to be instructed in English, mathematics, science, social studies, art, music, health, and physical education. State coercion. Frightening.
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FYI, many churches and other religious orgs are approved for SSL hours by MCPS.  The issue is whether the work is religion-based, not whether it is done by a church.  So teaching religion classes would not be approved, whereas feeding the homeless from a church basement (assuming no evangelism/religious component existed) would count (if the org was approved).[/quote]

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