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Anonymous wrote:My kids’ school encouraged all students yesterday to earn SSL hours by volunteering at the Freestate Justice Name Change Clinic for LGBTQIA Maryland residents.
I guess that it’s not religious though so that’s ok???

Yep. I got this email also. MCPS is encouraging our kids to volunteer to help 14 year old kids change their name and gender in order to get SSL hours.

But your kid CANNOT get SSL hours for helping out with the toddlers at mosque. Because that would be wildly inappropriate.

Teaching about the Koran is not allowed for SSL, but encouraging youth gender change is welcomed.

We all know what the Mullahs do to the school kids around the world. And gender does not matter.

An email went out today saying if you got rejected last year for religious activities, resubmit it.

DS got rejected upon submitting his hours for the year and it was a TON of hours. I’m an honest person and generally play by the rules, but I immediately resubmitted it with a fake description because that restriction was crazy. He worked hard and it was inconsistent which school approved what, judging from his friends who did the same activities.

Did MCPS change the policy? I don’t see anything about religious activities in the FAQs or discussion of the policy. If it did change, was there any announcement, or just a completely quiet change.