Apparently not in Illinois, and don’t expect any homework either. Picture your sixth grader in Barack Obama’s plan announced today:

MANCHESTER, NH ? Senator Barack Obama today will issue a ?Call to Serve? and detail his commitment to making national service an important cause of his presidency in a major policy address at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa. …

[Obama’s plan will] Establish a goal of having middle and high-schoolers contribute at least 50 hours a week to community service, and reach that goal through national guidelines for service-learning and additional resources for schools to develop successful programs. …

(HT: Edward Morrissey. Note that Obama’s “newsroom” page is not responding at the moment.)