re: #82 subsailor68
The only hesitation I have with a Federally mandated or sponsored volunteer program is who decided which beneficiaries are worthy of being counted towards volunteer hours. My son had already completed easily over 200+ volunteer hours on various projects helping other Boy Scouts Eagle Projects and on his own service project by the time he was a senior in HS. These projects included landscaping a battered womens shelter, landscaping two gradeshools, building a receiving dock for a food pantry, cooecting first aid supplies for Hurricane relief, cleaning up a public park and yard work for a score of elderly citizens. When asked if any of those counted towards graduation he was told no because they weren’t officially sponsored by the High School.