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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in another state and our public school did not require service hours. [/quote]

FCPS does not require service hours.

Required service hours are a private school thing.[/quote]

MCPS requires 75 approved service hours to graduate. Only approved organizations are eligible to give MCPS students those hours, you are not allowed to work for your family. Thankfully, they make it relatively easy for the kids, and hand out a few hours here and there for service done in school. Kids who transfer late in high school from other places and who don't have enough hours to graduate are prioritized for those in-school hours.[/quote]

Thank goodness Virginia doesn't require this.

How is this equitable to poor kids who don't have transportation,  must have jobs to support their families or who have to help watch younger siblings?

75 hours is a lot of extra time.[/quote]

It's a requirement in Baltimore City--so, lots of genuinely poor students--and it's fine.  The schools and city make sure there are opportunities.[/quote]

I think there are waivers but there’s some poor kids that don’t have a lot of extra school responsibilities and some that do.  My father was shocked by the requirement — he grew up in a poor family and his parents ran a small business and he ran a small farm on the side of that selling items in the neighborhood to save money for college.   Starting from age 6 he worked hours before school, then worked after school until bed and then did it on the weekends.  There are still kids like that but I think they can get waivers.

Anyway it’s all a different question than the college question.  The 75 hours across 7 years that is likely for a lot of different organizations (and includes a lot of the school sponsored hours) isn’t really what colleges are looking for for community service.[/quote]

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