Against Mandatory Community Service

You’re rushing home after practice to get ready to do volunteer work. While you are doing your work you start thinking to yourself of what you have to do once you get home what assignments need to be due the next day, but as well u feel exhausted from practice or you’re after school activity. Once you get home you begin to do your assignments by the time you are finish the clock says midnight. The next day you feel tired and sleepy from not having enough rest. That for I am against for high schools to mandate volunteer work for students to graduate. For one students are too busy with after school activities and events, two students have homework and academics, and last the graduation numbers of the classes would be lower. Students are busy with after school activities and sports. As for student athletes they have after school practices or late practices in which it consumes most of their afterschool time. They have long and hard practices so once it comes to doing homework they feel very tired or exhausted at the end of the day. They finish their assignments late and that adds to the less sleep they get at night. Causing them not to be fully on task or concentrated the next day in class. As well for students that have afterschool jobs they get off school and may have from 1-3 hours before they go to work. That gets them a good start on their homework but then they have to finish once they get off work, most times around 10 or 11 at night. As my point is students are too busy with after school activities and events. Not only are students to busy with after school activities they are also busy with their academics. Most students have at least homework from 3-4 subjects or studying for test. As my first point that students have practices and jobs these students work very hard and once they come home they are tired, they still have to finish their assignments that they were assigned to do. As well students may also have time consuming projects that have a deadline that need to be completed. Some students will begin to have missing assignments if they have to do extra work as volunteering; they are barley finishing their assignment with them just doing their regular activities. Having missing assignments will cause them to either have a non passing grade or either in the end flunking the class. Having them to retake the classes during the summer in summer school. Adding extra work as mandatory volunteer work to a student’s already busy life will surely cause them struggle in the end. For volunteer work means work that is done voluntarily not forced by schools. A student’s life, which has after school activities and keeping up with their academics, is hectic enough. WILL cause struggle. At a point a student will be in a very deep hole that he has to work harder to get out of. This also surely will cause the graduation rate to decrease. Students that flunk classes during the school will have to attend summer school to get the credit for graduation as well in the summer they have to worry about retaking a class and getting their volunteer work in so that they are able to walk the stage and graduate. Most high school require at least 50-70 hours of volunteer work to be done (according to scholarsgrant.com). If students do not complete the classes and get the credits needed to graduate, cause of having to meet the requirements of the community service hours. Will cause them to spend more time or another year to get their high school diploma. The more students having to do this will cause the percentage rate of graduates in that class to decrease yearly. For this I am highly vote NO that students are mandated to community service hours to graduate from high school. One students are too busy with after school activities and events, students that are worried and keeping up with their academics, and that the graduation of classes would decrease. So I ask of you to vote NO on having mandatory community service hours to graduate.