Mandated Parent Service

Parent Mandated Service Hours

Parents are required to perform a set amount of service hours for the school. The activities will take into consideration the variety of available times that parents can offer: school hours, before or after school hours, or weekends. The volunteer activities will also take into consideration the fact that some parents may not be able to be present at the school location at all, due to work schedule, or care for young children at home, etc. Accordingly, activities that could be done from home on the computer or phone will also be part of the organized effort to encourage volunteerism. As part of the requirements of enrollment, all families who wish to send their child(ren) to Al Falah will agree to the following terms:

• single-parent families will offer 10 hours of service to the school per school year
• dual-parent families will offer 20 hours of service to the school per school year
• Failure to meet the 20-hour service requirement results in a penalty of $20 per unfulfilled hour, charged in June to your credit card or ACH automated payment plan format. So if no parent service hours are provided, the family will be charged $400 in June.
• All parents are responsible for entering their service hours into HelpCounter. Training is provided on Meet Your Teacher Day, and visual instructions are sent monthly to all families, along with their monthly log of volunteer hours, as a reminder.
• Please see the HelpCounter sub-heading in the Parent section of this website, for instructions on how to log your service hours

The hours are counted on a “per family” basis, not per child. In other words, whether a family has one child or multiple children in the school, the service hour requirement is the same: 10 or 20, depending on family structure. While earning Parent Service Hours, parents are encouraged to offer their skills, talents, and service for a wide variety of opportunities, including Club leadership (chess club, soccer club, art club), Competition training (Math Olympiad, Science Olympiad, Spelling Bee Club, etc), chaperoning on field studies, story-reading, tutoring, hot lunch assistance, book fair administration, cooking for Eid parties, joining our Security Team at Arrival and Dismissal times, offering Career Day presentations…the list goes on!