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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]

Of course I have checked the Montgomery county volunteer website (although the point is that that the kids are supposed to be doing the planning not the parents.) Most of the activities involve me driving my kid 30 minutes each way to help my kid volunteer one hour or doing something expensive like buying ingredients to cook food at home and drive my kid to drop off a homeless shelter. Yes there are school based activities but as other have pointed out, with 800 other middle schoolers, those opportunities go quickly.

As for a parent taking off during the summer to volunteer alongside their kid at a homeless shelter, most parents have to work during the summer…check your privilege indeed.[/quote]

My kid had very near the required hours before completing MS and I didn’t drive anywhere out of the way or take off the entire summer.  They participated in SSL activities through the school system (including some sessions where buses where provided and some virtual), volunteered to help at PTA events at their ES, and now in HS have continued to do other things that now have the kid over the required hours and working towards the 240hrs needed for the award.

There is no requirement to complete the hour in MS and very little reason why they can’t be completed before HS graduation.[/quote]

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