<p>wharfrat, sorry, but you don’t know what responsibility I do or do not have! 
As I said earlier, I know several teachers, two of whom are responsible for coordinating the community service requirements in their schools. Neither has had difficulty with the job of seeing that it gets done. As I also said, there will always be a few kids who will leave it til the last possible moment, and there will be those who don’t take it seriously or try to play games with fulfilling their hours, but the majority will not. You’re making it sound like Canadian kids somehow have more initiative than American kids, and I think we both know that that isn’t the case. What kind of trips are necessary for kids to fulfill a CS requirement, and why would teachers need to be involved? Seems to me that the issue THERE is not the trip, but the way the requirements are set up. What about field trips, in general, or speakers coming into the schools? I’m curious how you feel about those things, as I asked earlier.</p>