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*Students are not required to do community service for the 2020-21 school year. Please contact your guidance counselor if you have questions.
Community Service Requirement
Introduction: The vitality of our democracy depends on all members of society, especially students, gaining a sense of their connection to the larger community. One of the best ways to create such ties is through community service learning. The experience of community service enables high school students to contribute their efforts to activities that are useful to the community and helps them to reflect on what they learn from their participation.
Student Proposal: Using the designated forms found online or in the guidance office, please outline your proposal for community service. Students are required to complete a minimum of 60 hours of community service prior to graduation. We believe that each student complete 15 hours of community service each year in which they are enrolled at Winthrop High School regardless of the transfer date.
Guidelines: Each student must complete the designated forms found on the web site or in the guidance office. Students will submit a proposal for a community service project to their guidance counselor. The Guidance Counselor will review proposals and meet with each student to discuss acceptance or rejection of the proposal. The Winthrop High School Guidance Counselors will monitor students’ community service projects. Students are urged to be aware of this in order that they may begin an approved community service requirement according to the accepted proposal. The student is to return the completed signature form to his/her respective Guidance Counselor, at the end of the completed community service hours. The completed forms will be retained in a student file. Please be reminded that successful completion of community service hours is a requirement for each student’s graduation from Winthrop High School. All seniors must complete their community service requirements by May 1st or they will not participate in any senior class activities. This will include the senior prom and graduation.
Suggestions for Community Service Projects: The following is a list of suggested community service projects. Students are encouraged to develop a proposal of their own; however, the following suggestions may help to guide the student in the development of a respective guidance counselor:
- Assisting an elderly or needy citizen/and or at Senior Center;
- Assisting the Youth Athletic League;
- Assisting at a food pantry;
- Coaching a youth sports team;
- Tutoring;
- Participating in a Town Beach Clean-Up Day;
- Helping to package goods for troops;
- Serving at a soup kitchen;
- Participating in a Youth and Recreation Department activity.
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