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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Both my kids had done over 130 hours by the end of 7th grade.

It is pathetic that this has not been completed by so many high school students.

There are still about 4 or 5 states where this is mandatory. [/quote]

Great for you.  But you also have free time to waste on DCUM so presumably you’ve got time and income to spare.  A lot of MCPS parents don’t have the resources to shuffle their kids around to get SSL hours or to pay to get them done at summer camp.  Check your privilege.[/quote]

+1 not sure exactly how one’s kids get 130 hours so “easily” in middle school.  Do enlighten us but I suspect it involves quite a bit of parental chauffeuring for an activity the kid was already involved in or some major money for SSL approved camps [/quote]

Considering kids get like 20-30 hours in MS just from class this is not exactly hard.  Kid could volunteer to help at PTA related activities at their school or their old ES.  They could use all that summer free to help at a local shelter or soup kitchen alongside a parent volunteer.  They could offer to stay after school on activity bus days to help reshelve books for the media center. Etc etc etc… Have you or your kids even check the Montgomery County volunteer website?

It’s not the folks who’ve completed the hours who need to check their privilege.  [/quote]

The media center doesn’t want all that help.  My kid tried to find something like this after school and there are very very few such opportunities.  Your other suggestion involves the parent taking off work for weeks to volunteer with her.  I check the emails and websites weekly and it’s honestly a pain because most of the options require an hour of driving for an hour or two of service credit.  We’ve been doing cooking at home for the homeless shelters but that’s also a pain — not many take home cooked food unless yyou can cook for 200+ (which we can’t) and it costs me a ton of money to buy the supplies for the cooking.  
Basically unless your kid has an in with a teacher that is willing to sign off on a sheet to let them pretend to help after school, it’s a big pain to get those hours.

My oldest got a ton of hours because she ran a club for younger kids after school….but again that’s the kind of thing that only a couple of kids per school can do.  Each MS has like 2000 kids….they don’t have 200,000 hours on volunteer work for them.
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Agreed.  The parent who suggests the kid volunteer all summer in a shelter or a soup kitchen alongside a parent just proves the point that the kids who load up easily on SSL hours are the ones with stay at home parents/rich parents who can take off work to do this stuff with them.  And those kids would likely get service opps anyway to pad their resumes for elite colleges even without McpS requiring this.[/quote]

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