Pleasantville High School Analysis

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.

Often as we grow our schedules we forget to acknowledge the fact that our name does not read “volunteer needed”. It has been said, and I sincerely repeat, that if we fail ever say no than our yes loses its value. A resounding alarm greeted an early six o'clock sunlight that signaled the end of a sleep cycle. Pulling on clothes and a quick flash of vision directed at a schedule summed up the morning other than the arrival to a National Honor Society meeting, which would be followed by a Leo club lunch meeting and trailed by a Business Professionals of America after school practice. A typical day of a Stephenson High School senior displays in this way. They are involved in many activities, both school oriented and community involved. This leaves little to no time to develop personality traits other than ones that involve servitude. While it is important to be involved in the community, overinvolvement decreases the quality of the rendered services and overwhelms the individual performing these service

I really appreciated watching the documentary about Little Rock Central High School in class this week. “Little Rock Central High School is an accredited comprehensive public high school in Little Rock, Arkansas.” I had never hear about the school before or knew the history behind what happened many years ago. I cannot imagine what it must have felt like for African American kids to go school for the very first time with a bunch of white Americans who did not accept them at the time. Nine simple ordinary African American kids worked so hard to allow a chance for them to receive an education in a school that was not segregated. To think about how much bullying they went through and how much verbal and physical abuse they must have endured

Some people believe that requiring students to volunteer in order to receive their high school diploma defeats the purpose of volunteering. They believe that it would cheapen the work that the students are doing. They believe that the students would not put the required effort into the volunteer work. However, once the students start volunteering, they will forget that they are required to. The students will be proud and have a feeling of accomplishment in the work they are doing and put effort into volunteering in the community. Therefore, students should have to do volunteer work to receive their

To be an inclusive society, a community must accommodate all children, providing them with the resources to accomplish their utmost desires. The barriers established by prejudice of past must be surmounted, as ethnicity does not define the principles of a person. The impoverished shall have their necessities satisfied, without the burdensome stigma from pompous individuals. This exemplifies the flawless utopia, a society brimming with bliss and opportunity. Yet, to a perplexing reality, while strides have been accomplished in involving minorities in superior programs, there is an underlying layer fear: the unease of success. Currently, less minorities are attempting to pursue higher classes, as they see these opportunities as being reserved

Right now I am almost halfway through my senior year of high school, I am attending Laurel Concord Coleridge High School in Nebraska. I live in a small town called Coleridge. I have participated in volleyball, basketball, and track all through high school, I feel like I have demonstrated leadership skills in sports and in the classroom. In sports I am always trying to encourage my teammates and make sure they know what to do. If one of my teammates comes up and asks me a question I am always more than happy to answer it for them. I have also demonstrated these particular skills in the classroom. If I am in a group for a group project I make sure everyone knows what their part is in the assignment. I also help students who ask for it on their homework. Whether it is a teammate or another student

Spartanburg High is not what you think it can be as an eighth grader. If I knew this when I was in the 8th grade my freshman year could have been a lot better especially if I knew my way around the building more. I could also know about the requirements here at Spartanburg High such as the academics, behavior and the attendance. If I could warn upcoming 8th graders about the life at Spartanburg High, I would have mainly warn them about the requirements at the school, the building structure and also the involvement in school sports and clubs.

Having a different class schedule might be a interesting change for the students at Corvallis High School.

First, students should not be mandated to this involuntary servitude because it possesses no value for any degree. According to the proposal the community service has no relation to the field of study, clinical hours, nor internship. With the lack of value, it threatens

Most teens are too irresponsible to have a job, they believe that since it is their first job they are able to make mistakes. What they don’t understand is that even though it's a first job doesn’t mean you can make commodious mistakes.Volunteer work is a good way to teach teens responsibility and a good work ethic before starting their first job.

Discussing about volunteering to teenagers should be the first step for a better life, since teenagers are the future of tomorrow and they will leave a mark from yesterday. Volunteering has been such an important matter, that schools in many countries around the world established that 12th grade students will need certain hours of community service in order to graduate. But the frequent answers all the schools are getting are “Why do I need to volunteer? I have better things to do!” What people are forgetting is that each one of them is part of a community, a community that is not perfect and that the government sometimes forgets about their problems or needs, because obviously the government needs to take care of other things that require more attention. People are not only helping others, they are also helping themselves (Volunteering).

Volunteering activities cause for understanding disequilibrium in the community and boost developing some sort of senses such as helping and empathy. One of another need of civic engagement that is necessary for civic life is positive youth development. Bachen et al. (2008, p.298) defined positive youth development as “activities that prepare youth to be responsible individuals, including character-building and fostering civic virtue, obeying the law, patriotism, fostering good judgment, leadership training, and ethical behavior.” Kids are expecting to developed civic virtue that respect diversities in the community and sense of elimination of bad habits such as plagiarism or crude patriotism. Youth activism is situated in youth development is other necessity for civic life (Bachen et al., 2008). Youth activism is comprised of activities that cause for youth express their opinions about official or unofficial

Volunteerism enables students to gain the moral lesson that is vital to their life and develop their future interest. According to source 2, “community service teaches us through experience - about the relationship between empathy and responsibility, about what it takes to be part of a community, in essence, about human being”. While students are helping their community, they learn the crucial moral lessons in the most direct and impressive way. Through an actual experience of volunteering, students are reminded that it is their responsibility to serve for their community because they are a part of it. Helping without any feedback allows them to realize the power of empathy, the essential value that makes the society a

Nevertheless, the common misconception linked to graduating College students is that they are well-rounded adults, who have done their time and are ready and able to enter the working force and go on with their lives. The fact of the matter is that not all recent college students are mature and knowledgeable on their community and the world at large. “Teens who volunteer increase their knowledge of the world and the problems that face it” (“Youths”). This quote is not only applicable to teens, but college students as well; unfortunately, college students become isolated from the rest of the world while they are in their course of study and do not make time to give back to the community that helped them become who they are.