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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]These don't count:
* helping with Sunday School

That is unacceptable. My DD has gone back to her elementary school and helped the teachers out with various tasks. She has also volunteered in the Media Center, etc.

What is the difference? Helping out an MCPS teacher or helping out a Sunday School teacher. Both should be allowed. Or neither should be allowed. If anything, the Sunday School teacher is likely an unpaid volunteer, whereas the MCPS teacher is a paid individual.[/quote]

You can't be this dense.  Elementary schools enroll anyone. Sunday School enrolls members of a particular faith.  Therefore service in an elementary school is for the wider community. Service at Sunday School is for a narrow group.

If you want your kid to volunteer at Sunday School, nothing is stopping you. Please just have her do it if she likes it -- maybe she'll get a good college essay out of the experience. It just doesn't count for SSL requirements. It is incredibly easy to get 75 hours -- something like 30 or 40 of them you get by just showing up for class in 6th through 9th grade.  If your kid can't find a way to do another 35 hours of service to the wider community over the course of 7 years of middle and high school, that's on you.[/quote]

Elementary schools enroll everyone.  [b]Basketball teams only enroll those who choose to join and pay.  Therefore, service to an elementary school benefits the wider community, but service as a coaching assistant to a youth program only benefits the narrow group that chooses to join the basketball league.[/b]

And yet, MCPS allows SSL hours for one type of “narrow” service and not another.

Sure, kids could do religious volunteering on their own time without ssl credit, but your kid could do what you consider community wide volunteering on their own time without credit too.[/quote]

This.

My kid has gotten all sorts of sports-related SSL hours.
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