Community Service

Community service has been normally on your own will, but lately school have added community service hours to their curriculum. With adding another required course to the schools it would help them learn lessons for later in life. The job for schools is not just to teach the core classes, but also life lessons that will help them when their out of school. Then there are kids that have to help support their families and work after school and therefore its unfair to add another requirement to their high school curriculum. York School Board should require students to perform community service for 60 hours throughout high school because by doing so it can provide valuable life lessons for students as well as a valuable for members of the community. Asking students to perform community service hours can teach them lessons they can build on throughout life and will also improve teens image in the community. By requiring kids to do a minimum of 60 hours of community service throughout their four years at the high school level they will learn many life lessons. It will teach students lessons like responsibility, leadership, gratitude, respect and empowerment. Those are just a few of many life lessons students can learn from having to do community service. Once students have done community service most of them would probably tell you they learned something new that they will carry with them throughout their life. Teens now of days are mostly known as either lazy or not respectful, by doing community service the older generation will have a different view on the upcoming generation. They will see them as hard working, responsible, and respectful people and will change their mind about what they think of the upcoming generations. By requiring students to have community service hours to graduate it will help them apply to earn scholarships. In a lot of scholarships it will ask you something like “what have you done out of school to give back to your community?”. Therefore, with having a requirement by your school to do community service you can apply for a lot more scholarships. Scholarship committees don’t just look at your grades they want to give their money to a students that have one good grade but a close second they are a good person by doing community service it will show that you are responsible and a well rounded person. If every student in high school was required to do community service it would help with becoming a well bonded community. By giving back to your community it will help bring people together and will make the community look good. It doesn’t matter how much you do just by doing a little community service you are making a positive difference in your community by helping others out. Plus the people you help out during the community service you do, you will become closer to them and start to make friendships. Then they will more likely be willing you help you out in your life if you are helping them out. Then if every students that went through high school had to do community service in long terms the community would be good looking and attract people to visit. It will also help families in your community that aren’t very financially sound if you give some time and help them.
York School Board should require students to perform community service for 60 hours throughout high school because by doing so it can provide valuable life lessons for students as well as a valuable for members of the community. With all the positives this can have on improving your community, making your students better people, and helping them earn scholarships requiring students to do community service should be thought about for high schools.