Should High School Be Mandatory?

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.

When applying for a position at a job, managers always check to see how much experience you have in order to check if you are qualified. When filling out a college application there are always questions that ask to write down any extra curricular activities you participated in or any clubs/service work you did and for how long. It is important to be a part of the community and to be dedicated to one or two locations for a certain amount of time to show commitment and effort. A student that has been a part of an organization for about three months and has not missed will be prefered at a college than a student that goes five times a month. Community service does not only help build relationships but allows students to spend their time learning new skills and it will benefit them in the future. Community service for high school seniors should be mandatory because it will teach the students how to be responsible, allow them to explore in depth something related to their career and improve their communication skills.

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.

In many schools, including my own, volunteering is becoming mandatory to graduate. Some people don’t believe this is a good idea because it could hurt more than it helps. One thing about mandatory volunteering is if it is volunteering at all. When you volunteer for something it should be because you want to help the community instead of just looking at it as if it’s a grade. Also, charities fear that forcing kids to do volunteering in high school can make them look at volunteering in a bad way and in return when student become older they may not want to volunteer. (Republic, Author Charity)

Why should high school students have to complete community service hours to graduate? When students start their high school career, they are thinking about their diploma and their future. People should not have to rake leaves for elderly people or serve food for their local retirement home to go to college. Getting good grades these days is hard enough, but trying to earn a certain number of community service hours makes high school even more demanding. Helping the community is great; however, during school hours, community service can cause students to miss class work, tests, etc.

Throughout the free education all american students are given parents and educators begin to pressure students into planning how they are going to get into college. Some parents push very hard from a young age for their kids to plan a career choice and to plan a college which to attend after high school. I think some parents push to hard and end up damaging their children's drive towards education. In my opinion students should be given the right to university not forced to attend against their will.

Many high school students do not have volunteering program. There are many ways to participate in our community. Schools should require students to participate in volunteer program in their programs in their communities as a requirement for graduation because, it will make students get ready to college, it gives life and work experience for future, and it also strength our community.

College is a major topic of discussion for students in high school who seek to further their education. Many high school students look forward to the opportunity of attending a college or university. However, others become discouraged with the thought of paying for a higher education and being potential buried in debt soon afterwards. The discussion comes into questioning due to the biggest challenge that students face when preparing to go to school. In today’s society students are inquiring if college is right for them because of the lack of employment rate of those whom already have attained college degrees.

I will be able to attend the event, and I was wondering how other interested students would be selected to attend? I have a friend that read O'Brien's book in high school and would love to attend the dinner if there are any spots available. So if there is any information on that she would appreciate

In addition to taking away many hours of people's free time after school hours, the required 75 hours of community service is also pushing the students to do too much at one time. It isn't fair to the students who have to go home with backpacks full of homework each and every day, do their three or four hours of service, and still find a way to get the amount of sleep they need to repeat

Community service in our society is starting to get a diminished appeal because it doesn't sound fun. Teenagers don't understand what they are doing for other people and our focused on the entertaining aspect of it. When it shouldn't be about that. It should be about helping people, but we are too concerned with ourselves. Required community service would some people good because it would teach them how to do it, but in a way it might ruin the purpose of it. This is because community service and service in general should be about the greater good, not because you are forced to do it to graduate. The point is that society has changed loads since the Counterculture Movement, in the sixties, but attitudes for this are still not the greatest.

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.

Advocates for mandatory community service say that it nurtures students and prepares them for future jobs in which leadership skills are valued. This also opens a marketing network for students to

A generation ago, "community service" was a punishment juvenile offenders must endure. Today, more and more students like to help out their communities. There are three main reasons why students volunteer: