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The following information describes the community service graduation requirement.
Service Learning/Community Service Plan
ALL STUDENTS must complete hours 20 hours of community service over 4 years of high school. It is anticipated that all students complete the Community Service Requirement by the 2nd quarter of Grade 12.
The Process for Community Service Hours
¨ Students will advise their parent(s) or legal guardian about their Service Learning/Community Service work.
¨ Organization(s) verifies, by signature, that the service has been completed by signing an Hourly Log Sheet as hours are completed. Please see Appendix D for copy of Hourly Log Sheet.
¨ Verified Hourly Log Sheets are stored by the student in their ILP files for use in the Senior Portfolio Presentation. Hard copies of Hourly Log Sheets are to be kept in student’s ILP file for the 4 years of high school.
¨ Community Service/Service Learning will be part of the Senior Portfolio Presentation at which time the student will present their verified Hourly Log Sheets and orally reflect on the experience(s).
WHAT ARE ACCEPTABLE AND UNACCEPTABLE HOURS OF SERVICE FOR GRADUATION?
ACCEPTABLE:
· Any service-learning activity whose chief purpose is to directly address human needs in areas such as health, education, the environment, or public safety, even if done in conjunction with a religiously affiliated agency or institution, can be counted toward the service-learning graduation requirement.
· Any service-learning activity whose chief purpose is to collect food, clothing, or other items necessary to benefit others and meet human needs, even if done in conjunction with a religiously affiliated agency or institution, can be counted toward the service-learning graduation requirement.
· Any service-learning activity whose chief purpose is to serve the school community itself.
· Service-learning activities whose purposes are to extend the benefit of the service activity to individuals or families in need, other than the student’s own family, may be counted toward the service-learning graduation requirement.
· All acceptable service-learning activities require a signed and approved Project Proposal Form.
Note: A listing of possible and approved Service Learning/Community Service sites is available in the Guidance Offices. This is not an exclusive listing. Other organizations may be approved.
UNACCEPTABLE:
· Any service-learning activity whose chief purpose is to serve the student’s own family and which does not extend the benefit of the service activity to other families in need cannot be counted toward the service-learning graduation requirement.
· Any service-learning activity that violates federal or state law which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, or disability cannot be counted toward the service-learning graduation requirement.
· Any service-learning activity whose chief purpose is to increase the amount of revenue for a private, for profit business or to generate new revenue for that business cannot be counted toward the service-learning graduation requirement.
· Any service-learning activity that replaces a paid staff worker of the participating agency or institution with a student earning service-learning credit cannot be counted toward the service-learning graduation requirement.
· Any service-learning activity that compensates a student with money, goods, or services such that the service-learning activity is performed in expectation of both the service-learning credit and the money, goods, or services cannot be counted toward the service-learning graduation requirement.
· Any service-learning activity whose chief purpose is to convert others to a particular religious, moral, or spiritual view and/or which denigrates the religious, moral, or spiritual views of others cannot be counted toward the service-learning graduation requirement.
· Any service-learning activity whose chief purpose is to help prepare and/or participate in the performance of a religious service cannot be counted toward the service-learning graduation requirement.