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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's no reward. It's like when they take strings or band. They have to record their practice hours. You're teaching them that one has to practice to get better at things. The teacher has no way of knowing if they practiced, so you sign off. Surely you're clarifying this to your kids.

Of course you teach them that normally one does service and good deeds without boasting or calling attention to it. This is just documented because the schools are trying to encourage service, because a lot of people do not do service or teach anything to their kids. Isn't this obvious?[/quote]

But band and strings are not required parts of the FCPS curriculum.  I see what OP is saying.  My issue is that the county is requiring students to do something, but not providing the opportunity to do it.  This is different than anything else the students are required to do to pass a class.[/quote]

The problem with it is that most 11 year olds aren't desired as volunteers and can't really do anything useful.  It's hard to find opportunities.  Also, they aren't old enough to go around looking for opportunities or driving themselves there, so the parent has to do that too.  My suggestion would be to look for community cleanup activities.  Check the Nova parks pages online for things like stream monitoring.  Those are good activities for kids and also fun and educational.  [/quote]

5 hours for an 11-12 year old over a year is very minimal. 1 hour/quarter helping out at their school, and they are mostly there (DD did 3 hours at a food packing event at Dulles expo with a parent, and spent 2 hours volunteering at the school fun run. NBD). [/quote]

The really ironic part is when the school doesn't accept volunteers that age.  Mine doesn't.  I ran an event and needed volunteers badly, but the principal said I could not use 6th graders.  [/quote]

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