<p>My daughter, the senior, has always done a minimum of 100 hours of CS from her heart. Things she’s chosen to do. This year, her religion teacher is an absolute witch and is requiring 20 hours of specific community service. Zoosergirl, who is the least controntational, least argumentative person I know has her back up over this and it, along with the woman’s religious requirement, is absolutely ruining senior year. Zoosergirl works with several organizations that really count on her presence, specifically. She’s been with them for years and is now pretty much running the show on several events that needy members of the community count on to be there for them. Zoosergirl’s point is that SHE should choose what she does (because it comes from the heart) and not have to choose between the areas in which she can and does make a difference and make-work nonsense arbitrarily selected by the teacher. There are not enough hours in a week for her to do both, so she now has to make a choice and she’s leaning toward taking a huge hit on her grade in the class to go with what she knows to be right. I almost never have a problem with teachers, but this woman is out of hand. A total dictator. The Geezer Counselor was reassigned to another parish recently and the teacher demanded that all the kids say a novena or light a candle for him. Daughter (who is known to be non-Catholic and welcomed under the school’s handbook) told the teacher that we don’t do those things but that she would add Father to our church’s prayer chain for a month to honor his service. Not good enough. Arrrrgh!!!</p>