Real World Learning Graduation Information
Students must complete Community Service, Career Exploration, Culture, and Democratic Process hours for Graduation. They also are required to be involved in any school activity for at least 8 hours every year. These requirements encompass a wide range of activities including “double dipping” into a student’s current out of school activities. Such as:

Career Exploration and Planning: job shadows, college fairs, college visits, interviews, apprenticeships, or job fairs. Mr. Cilley can help with any of this.

Community Service: service projects in established organizations such as Scouts, youth groups, religious organizations; volunteering at local hospitals, animal shelters, nursing homes, hospice facilities; volunteering to help individual (non-family) community members; or volunteering here at school such as some students did on the day of the Dedication when they gave tours.

Democracy in Action: participation in a campaign effort, attending rallies, letter writing (as part of a class or on one’s own), attending or speaking at local boards and councils, serving on a local board or council, working on an important community issue, serving in our school government, helping to register people to vote, or voting.

Cultural Enrichment: attending concerts, plays, museums, galleries, poetry readings, or lectures; participating in a community sponsored (non-school) concert, play, art show, festival, or poetry reading; or hosting a foreign exchange student.

School Activities: any of the co-curricular, athletic, or intramural activities offered at Bedford High School during and after school.