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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS requires 75 hours of community service for graduation.

I can't believe there are people who actually find this objectionable???[/quote]

That's a lot of service hours.

5 service hours a quarter translated into volunteering 2hrs or 3hrs for 2 out of every 9 Saturdays.[/quote]

Just to clarify, for the MCPS requirement, you can begin earning the hours after completion of 5th grade, so you have over SIX YEARS to meet the 75 hour requirement.[/quote]

Realistically how many kids are going to start plugging away at those hours though. How many realize in 11th grade that those hours are DUE soon!![/quote]

When my kid was in MCPS middle school, they earned hours for some thing they did on outdoor ed.  They also had an assignment where they had to find a site and do 5 hours for Reading class, and an assignment for World Studies where they had to interview someone who was alive in WW2, which somehow lead to hours.  My kid was amazed that he got hours for talking to his own Grandma!  In HS his sports team had events every year that gave them hours -- packing boxes for the food kitchen, running the moon bounce at some school event, etc . . . 
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