Service learning: local high schools differe on requirement aspect vs. optional

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Creator: Mary Graham
Media Type: Newspaper
Item Types: Articles; Photographs
Notes: New Trier High School's approach to community service is to make it optional for students, while at Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart in Lake Forest 70 hours of volunteering are mandatory for graduation. Comments by Social Service Club co-sponsor Tom Kucharski of New Trier and Mitch Jones, a service learning coordinator at the school, students Jillian Seiler and Benny Ginsburg

Photograph Woodlands Academy senior Lauren McClusky and Jackie McDermott of Chicago during a benefit concert for Special Olympics. Photograph Jillian Seiler of Glencoe p.A2
Date of Publication: 24 Apr 2008
Subject(s): Community service
Schools
Corporate Name(s): New Trier Township High School
Local identifier: Wilmette.News.294555
Language of Item: English
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