Mandatory Community Service For Seniors

Many schools require students to participate in community service, but I think this is a good idea. Many schools do not require students to volunteer in community service. I agree that students should have to volunteer to graduate. I think that students should be forced to volunteer for community service sometime in their high school career as it makes people work and shows them what work really is. It also gets people off there lazy tail.

High school administrations care about the well being of their students. They aim to guide the students in a way that will prepare them for the future ahead of each student. Thus administrations of high school have certain requirements that students must finish before graduating. There is one requirement that is commonly debated by high school administration and students, this topic being community service. Community service should not be required in order to graduate from high school since forcing students to volunteer leads to false information on their records, forcing students to do so does not mean that they will continue doing community service after they graduate, and it does not mean the student will mature.

A continuous debate that is currently receiving much attention is whether community service should be a mandatory graduation requirement. Preparing students to effectively function in the real world is an important aspect of our education system. Today more than ever, there is an emphasis on having experience before beginning work. Most jobs are now focused on looking past your resume to see what you have given back to the community. Nevertheless, it is important that schools focus on preparing college students for the work force by mandating that they receive all of the necessary exposure and experience. Numerous schools across the country have mandated that in order for their students to graduate, they must complete a predetermined amount of community service. In Maryland, high school students are required to complete a minimum of 75 hours of service in order to graduate. However, this decision has resulted in a lot of mixed responses. Advocates of this decision stress that mandatory community service opens doors for students, while the opponents feel that it takes away valuable time from students who need to focus on their education. I believe that gaining experience outside of school is critical for future success in life. To ensure that students are prepared to transition smoothly from school to work, they need to be involved with the community while in school in order to build the leadership skills that are necessary to succeed.

Should community service be a requirement to graduate high school ? While many high schools have made it mandatory to complete a certain amount of community service hours, many high schools don’t find it necessary and put it as optional. Students may find it as absurd or completely unnecessary to complete their community service hours while others find it rewarding. In my opinion, I don’t believe having a certain amount of community service hours should be a requirement to graduate high school.

My high school requires twenty-five service hours each year of high school in order to graduate, plus an additional fifteen to be involved in National Honor Society. While this may make all of the community services I have participated in sound like a mere school requirement, it is actually the complete opposite of that. Without those school requirements, I am not sure how involved I would be in my community. But due to them, I am always involved in some way.

Is graduating a goal for you? To be the first one to graduate in your family? It’s like as if you’re almost there, just one more step but you need one more requirement to be eligible. In this article “Pro/Con: Should Student Service Learning Hours Be Mandatory?” By Claire Koeing, it states the opinion of why high school students should and shouldn’t do community service as a requirement to graduate high school. Many have their own opinion of why it is and isn’t important to have community service as a requirement. High school students mainly seniors already have so much stress and to do, but this does prepare them and give them a taste of how it will be after graduation.

The fight to not do Community Service to graduate. By reading the article by: Claire Koenig no schools should not require Community Service to graduate from high school. Community Service should be optional you are trying to help the community in your own time not because the school tells you to.

In a culture driven by self-interest, a community service requirement in school might not be such a bad idea. Community service offers an opportunity to give back to the community and learn an appreciation for the undermined people and jobs that help a community function. On college applications there is even a category for a perspective student to list all of his or her community service activities. Requiring high school students to serve a certain number of community service hours would be a great way to get kids involved in the community, give back, get a community involved in school activities, and give students an edge when applying for college. There are a variety of community service opportunities. A student could tutor, repairing a house, cleaning trash, delivering meals on wheels, volunteering at an animal shelter, creating care packages for deployed soldiers, or volunteering to teach music. Out of all the possibilities I would choose to tutor kids after school because it would give me experience in the field I hope to pursue a career in, and offer a great opportunity to help kids learn.

It's undoubtable that community service is a good thing, however when someone is forced into doing something, the power of the action is greatly diminished. For example, a child who wants to play a sport on their own free will is much more likely to excell than a child whose parent made them play. Community service can easily be viewed with the same logic, and because of this I don't think the United States should require mandatory community service.

I think that community service shouldn't be required to graduate high school. I feel like if there was a community service requirement, most students would resent the assignment and therefore not benefit from having done the service. The school should give opportunities to do community service, but it shouldn't be required. There is definitely benefit to having done some community service, but the benefit of the student gets nullified if the student isn't into it.

According to Source D, “Support for requiring community service is weakest among those currently in school.” Form what the chart showed the idea for requiring community service to graduate isn’t very appealing. Source D states that the youth between ages 15-20 think of the idea as unfavorable. The required service they might have forced to be apart themselves may have caused a negative outlook on them which made them not have positive views on community service. Although, there are not all downsides to required community service there are some benefits that it

In today's society, the question has come to the attention of many schools concerning their graduation requirements and the possibility of including community service. Community service as a graduation requirement would change a lot of students' perspectives on their community because it would make them have to reach out and do something they wouldn't typically do on their own time of their own choice. The choice of what type of community service would be completed by students would be left up to them, therefore they have a many choices to choose from of how to fulfill this graduation requirement. Community service means anything that benefits members of the community or the community as a whole, so this could include spending time in a soup

To serve or not to serve, that is the question? Should mandatory community service be part of graduation requirements? I have personally talked with a few high school seniors and asked them the question, should community service be mandatory for graduation requirements? The answers I got were yes. One student reported that if it was not for the mandatory community service requirements she would have never volunteered her time in a nursing home with Alzheimer’s patients. Now she knows she wants to go to college and study the Brain. Another said that she has enjoyed working with kids in an afterschool program that she now wants to go to school and become a teacher. Others have said that they feel rewarded and feel a sense of accomplishment. They love the way they feel when they have helped someone else. According to Corporation for National and Community Service, in 2009, President Barack Obama encouraged volunteerism through the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act with a $1.49 billion budget. This act provided gave financial assistance in starting and supporting community service requirements in schools.

community service they oblige to do,“ Few of our programs seem to care about the relationship between service and the classroom. Until then, the relevance is null -- it becomes another assignment, compulsory and at risk of being completed half-heartedly.” as JA Alonzo and Walter Payton argued in the debate. More doubt focused on the “sincerity” of the participants, especially when it comes to “mandatory service”, people suspect if students will keep their genuineness and passion of committing when volunteering becomes mandatory. On the other side, "Requiring community service or granting credit for it does not cheapen it, nor does it lessen the effect of it," another student wrote in a counterpoint editorial. "It gives students who might not have otherwise done so the chance to understand the most important lesson they can learn: that they have power to better their world." (Sparks, 2013)

Nowadays, it is very difficult to get a job without a College Diploma. Our ever-increasing demands on student’s academic performances have insured well-educated adults, but what we have failed to focus on is the vital component of volunteerism as an integral part of rearing well-rounded adults. College students should be required to complete a year of community service/volunteer work before they can graduate, in order to create mature and caring adults and versatile future leaders. By mandating all College students across the United States of America to add another year to their studies and use this year for community service/volunteer work only, we will be able to increase their knowledge of community need, civic responsibility, and allow