社区服务

Concern for others, one of the school’s paramount values, must by its very nature be voluntary. We strongly encourage students to participate in school-wide, class-by-class, and individual service programs, and the overwhelming majority of students do so. Each class selects student community service representatives who, with help from faculty and staff, coordinate service projects for the year. Each year, Class VI boys make regular visits to St. Theresa’s School down the hill to interact with preschoolers. In recent years, the class has also participated in Boston’s Winter Walk, raising dollars and awareness in support of the homeless. Class V boys support hunger initiatives by working at a local food bank and participating in the Walk for Hunger, to raise money for Project Bread. Class IV visits the elderly at the Deutsches Altenheim twice a month, collaborating on special, seasonal projects for residents throughout the year. Class III boys work at Haley House, an organization serving the homeless and low-income residents of Boston. Each month, the boys plan, shop for food, cook, and serve a Sunday lunch for elderly guests. Members of Class II devote many hours to preparing meals with Community Servings in Jamaica Plain, meals that are sent out to various food kitchens. Six Saturday mornings throughout the school year, seniors prepared and served breakfast for the residents of Pine Street Inn residential shelter in Jamaica Plain. Seniors also regularly visit the Perkins School for the Blind, planning and taking part in various activities with visually-impaired students throughout the year. Also, through the school’s Ave Atque Vale Society, boys in the senior class serve as pallbearers at graveside services for homeless or indigent men and women who have no family to bury them. Roxbury Latin boys have assisted at nearly 100 funerals over recent years.

除了这些班级项目外，每年还有几个全校性项目。去年，整个学校社区共同开展筹款活动，为 "人类药品 "组织筹款。我们还筹集资金为博茨瓦纳的Maru-a-Pula学校提供孤儿奖学金。人类栖息地的RL分会在一年中的几个周末帮助波士顿家庭建造房屋。学生们最近参加了一个全校性的 "为每个孩子准备一张床 "的项目，为整个马萨诸塞州有需要的儿童组装了78张床。每年，技术辅导将老年公民带到学校的计算机实验室，每周与学生志愿者进行一对一的辅导，帮助他们了解互联网的神奇。每个校级运动队也承诺提供与某项运动相关的一天服务。 

在秋季，第五班和第六班在波士顿社区进行为期一天的服务。五班的男孩在家长志愿者的陪同下，在黑尔保留地做季节性维护，而六班的男孩则在波士顿历史公墓做志愿者，照料RL创始人约翰-艾略特的墓地，并在罗克斯伯里的艾略特墓地耙树叶。 

在这一年里，学生们组织了食物捐赠活动、衣物捐赠活动和节日玩具捐赠活动。除了这些有组织的、由学校赞助的项目外，许多男孩通过他们的教堂、犹太教会和社区组织参加服务活动。我们还提供一些内部服务机会。许多年长的男孩通过我们广泛的辅导计划辅导年幼的男孩，大多数男孩全年担任入学导游。几乎所有一班的成员都是新来的男孩的大哥哥，许多高年级的成员在为期四周的独立高级项目中选择服务工作。所有的人都希望在学年中被要求时能伸出援手。