Student 40 hrs volunteering positive Harris idea!
Posted by Sandy on 10th April 2008
Can you believe it? Blamed for everything negative that has ever happened to Ontario, including bad weather, the Mike Harris government apparently did something right.
Beginning in 1999, students in Grade 9 were told that they had to complete 40 hours of community service during their four years of high school. They also knew that they had no choice in this requirement, that the volunteering was mandatory. Meaning, that the 40 hours had to be finished successfully in order to graduate from Grade 12 with an Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD).
However, as Moira MacDonald wrote in a column in yesterday’s Toronto Sun:
“While schools encourage students to start thinking about it in Grade 9 and suggest doing 10 hours a year, there are always those last-minute few who have to pull out all the stops in April, May and June.”
“Gerald Mak, student trustee with the Toronto District School Board, tells me some students have not been able to graduate when they hoped, because they couldn’t get their volunteering done in time.”
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