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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At my high school they were offering 3 SSL for watching some 30 minute training on Canvas.  Only 30% of students bothered to finish it even though they were given time in homerooms.  At the end of last year 10% of seniors still didn’t have enough by early May.  Somehow they all made it.  Probably just watching videos or something that clearly is not the intent of the law.

At my last middle school, I got frustrated by random students showing up to after school events expecting to be given SSL hours for standing around.  They also expected that I would feed them.  Then they complained about the pizza I purchased with my own money.  It really put me off doing anything related to SSL hours.[/quote]

Some other counties don't allow middle schoolers to earn hours as credit for this reason. They feel like the majority of MS students do not try meaningful service. Some schools in MCPS have students whose parents think they will get a college scholarship based on an obscene number of hours that don't even seem possible - like 8 hours every Sat  and again on Sun with 40 hour weeks in the summer.

I always liked the days at my school when students would make sandwiches for shelters just because that is true service, IMO, compared to completing a Canvas module or submitting a form full of fluffed up hours.[/quote]

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