Middle School Service Hours
As part of their religion grade, middle school students must earn 36 service hours per school year. At least half of these must be for the disenfranchised - serving populations such as the aged, sick, injured, hungry, homeless, etc., where students are acting as the “Body of Christ.”
Examples of past service include:
-
registering participants for a blood drive;
-
running the “Race for the Cure” (or any fundraiser that helps generate funds for medical research);
-
assisting with Senior Support Center meals;
-
helping grandparents or the elderly with cleaning, shoveling snow, raking leaves;
-
gathering used clothing to donate;
The “regular” hours are for volunteer services provided within our own community such as singing in the choir at Mass, serving Mass, babysitting, walking dogs, running the clock at basketball games, services donated to the school’s Fall Fest auction, etc.