Mandatory Community Service Hours

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Community service hours that are treated with the respect they deserve and instead of being mandated, should be celebrated. Mandatory community service hours are too stressful for students. Instead of focusing on academic work, students are too focused on getting their community service hours done. This issue can be solved by making community service encouraged. Community service hours will not necessarily need to be done, but will be highly promoted by the teachers so there is still a connection within the community and volunteer work. With the encouraged hours, students will not lie about volunteer work because that is what students are doing to try to accomplish their community hours goal. Community service builds character and can help …show more content…
Encouraging the hours will make students focus on school work again along with still being involved in the community building character and staying active. Community service hours build character, even if they are not mandatory. Encouraging service hours can make students have more fun volunteering because students can do it during their own time and on their own free will. The volunteering opportunities build character by allowing the students to be involved while enjoying the community. Building character is a key role in volunteer work and the community because the opportunities make the students stronger. The opportunities make them stronger because they are working with people in need, people from their own community, and people they love and enjoy. People have found that students were obligated to lie about the amount of service hours they were doing. The students need to reach their goal and need to reach their goal to graduate. The students within ECC should be respectful and always tell the truth, but according to many people this isn't true. With the students not having the time to perform any community service, they would lie about what they were doing so they could reach their mandatory hours to graduate and to attend their senior trip. The theology teacher the school has always offers to sign community service hour papers which is a good thing, but how do she know the student actually did this? This problem can be solved by just having the service hours encouraged instead of

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