Anonymous
09/18/2025 23:54
Subject: rejected SSL forms-anyone dealt with this?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:You missed the deadline by a lot, OP!!!
It's one thing to submit something one day late and apologize profusely, explain what happened and throw yourself on the mercy of the SSL person. It's their call whether to accept late forms that are only late by a day.
But to assume that missing a May deadline and submitting the form in September would be fine is... really offensive. You were rightly rejected.
Your entire attitude about this is why deadlines exist and why people need to be harsh. You're ruining it for everyone else.
This. It’s crazy that we still had a couple weeks of school after the deadline, but your dc just decided it would be fine to submit the hours the following school year. Your dc has learned an important lesson for a pretty small price. Do not take dc’s side on this one.
I don’t agree with this. Badgering school officials who say they’re no longer accepting SSL forms for the remainder of the school years and telling them to make an exception for you is disrespectful.
Holding a form that was provided a day before the deadline and attempting to submit it the following year seems more reasonable to me.
Anonymous
09/18/2025 23:48
Subject: rejected SSL forms-anyone dealt with this?
Anonymous wrote:You missed the deadline by a lot, OP!!!
It's one thing to submit something one day late and apologize profusely, explain what happened and throw yourself on the mercy of the SSL person. It's their call whether to accept late forms that are only late by a day.
But to assume that missing a May deadline and submitting the form in September would be fine is... really offensive. You were rightly rejected.
Your entire attitude about this is why deadlines exist and why people need to be harsh. You're ruining it for everyone else.
This. It’s crazy that we still had a couple weeks of school after the deadline, but your dc just decided it would be fine to submit the hours the following school year. Your dc has learned an important lesson for a pretty small price. Do not take dc’s side on this one.
Anonymous
09/18/2025 21:29
Subject: rejected SSL forms-anyone dealt with this?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Its only 10 hours. Let it go.
Follow the deadlines to the letter for this next few years.
Ten hours is a lot to lose if you're a middle schooler trying to achieve the 75 before HS. Some kids get tons of hours from CIT at camps their parents have paid for in prior years, or get their summer swim to give them a lot of hours for timing/organizing events they were going to attend anyway, and for them to lose 10 hours is no big deal. But for other it's a struggle, particularly for kids for less privileged backgrounds.
Maybe the OP could send a note to the volunteer org that sent the form the day before the deadline and see if they can advocate for the kid not losing the hours.
If the deadline is approaching, and they tell you many times when that deadline is, and you dont have your forms its time to start emailing thr ssl coordinator and the volunteer organization to start a paper trail. They cant and shouldn't break the rules just for one student. Other students surely also has short deadlines and mass it happens others lost their hours and quietly took the L.
There is plenty of time to make it up.
Most teens aren’t going to complain that an adult isn’t doing their job and filling out forms in a timely fashion and escalate the issue to the school SSL coordinator. Most adults wouldn’t even do that.
I personally think the SSL system is a waste of resources and would cut it if I were running MCPS. Half the students aren’t meeting basic proficiency levels in reading and math and yet MCPS dedicates so many resources to pushing SSL.
Anonymous
09/18/2025 21:11
Subject: Re:rejected SSL forms-anyone dealt with this?
Is the HS SSL coordinator a full-time job, or just something one of the admin staff takes on every spring?
Anonymous
09/18/2025 21:08
Subject: rejected SSL forms-anyone dealt with this?
You missed the deadline by a lot, OP!!!
It's one thing to submit something one day late and apologize profusely, explain what happened and throw yourself on the mercy of the SSL person. It's their call whether to accept late forms that are only late by a day.
But to assume that missing a May deadline and submitting the form in September would be fine is... really offensive. You were rightly rejected.
Your entire attitude about this is why deadlines exist and why people need to be harsh. You're ruining it for everyone else.
It's one thing to submit something one day late and apologize profusely, explain what happened and throw yourself on the mercy of the SSL person. It's their call whether to accept late forms that are only late by a day.
But to assume that missing a May deadline and submitting the form in September would be fine is... really offensive. You were rightly rejected.
Your entire attitude about this is why deadlines exist and why people need to be harsh. You're ruining it for everyone else.
Anonymous
09/18/2025 21:04
Subject: rejected SSL forms-anyone dealt with this?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Its only 10 hours. Let it go.
Follow the deadlines to the letter for this next few years.
Ten hours is a lot to lose if you're a middle schooler trying to achieve the 75 before HS. Some kids get tons of hours from CIT at camps their parents have paid for in prior years, or get their summer swim to give them a lot of hours for timing/organizing events they were going to attend anyway, and for them to lose 10 hours is no big deal. But for other it's a struggle, particularly for kids for less privileged backgrounds.
Maybe the OP could send a note to the volunteer org that sent the form the day before the deadline and see if they can advocate for the kid not losing the hours.
When my kid was in MCPS MS, there were tons of options at school. I'm not sure I buy the "it's hard for kids from less privileged backgrounds".
It makes me sick how often parents of privileged kids try to get additional special privileges for their kids, by claiming something about less privileged kids.
Anonymous
09/18/2025 20:59
Subject: rejected SSL forms-anyone dealt with this?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Its only 10 hours. Let it go.
Follow the deadlines to the letter for this next few years.
Ten hours is a lot to lose if you're a middle schooler trying to achieve the 75 before HS. Some kids get tons of hours from CIT at camps their parents have paid for in prior years, or get their summer swim to give them a lot of hours for timing/organizing events they were going to attend anyway, and for them to lose 10 hours is no big deal. But for other it's a struggle, particularly for kids for less privileged backgrounds.
Maybe the OP could send a note to the volunteer org that sent the form the day before the deadline and see if they can advocate for the kid not losing the hours.
My child lost 30 ssl hours because he didnt submit in time. It's a lesson learned. There are lots of opportunities for kids to earn hours, even underprivledged kids.
Anonymous
09/18/2025 20:55
Subject: rejected SSL forms-anyone dealt with this?
I felt like no one ever looked at those forms. I guess it is school specific. My kids handed the form in a later semester. They used all of the same responses no matter what the activity was.