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Recommended: An introduction on volunteering

Many high school students around the country are required to do a certain number of community service hours before they are able to graduate. While there seems to be no problem with that requirement, some people believe that forced volunteering isn't truly volunteering. If someone is being helped by these services, it does not matter whether it is forced or not. Volunteerism promotes good citizenship and betters all people who take part in it. Required service hours could also work as a factor that simply encourages students to participate in service related events. Community service has many benefits not only morally, but also in things in life like getting into colleges, getting jobs, getting scholarships and so on. Colleges have shown great
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Are Schools Overstepping Their Boundaries? Would schools be overstepping their boundaries by requiring community service hours? While parents and civic leaders feel that volunteering strengthens bonds between school and the community, high schools should not require community service hours for graduation because it will interfere with more important priorities that students have, students are busy and stressed enough with school and jobs, and schools should not interfere with students involvement in the community. First of all, students have priorities such as jobs and after school activities. 1 in 4 high school students have jobs, which interferes with most of their time.

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Community service does not in any way help students it helps the person or thing receiving the service provide for free by our students. In the long run community service does not benefit the student. Also some may believe that forcing students to complete 75 hours of community service will give students a good experience. As a matter of fact, this in no way will be a good experience for students. They will be extremely stressed and anxious about graduating and about not being able to complete 75 hours of community service.

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Being in high school is time consuming. With some high schools adding community service as a requirement to graduate, it puts on more time for students. Yes, community service is good on college applications and it helps the environment and what not, but it should be optional. High school has enough requirements which includes certain classes that a student must take. Volunteering should not be mandatory because students already have enough responsibilities; they might have jobs, the need to be social and healthy, and if it’s supposed to be voluntary then it shouldn’t be forced.

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Generally, when students help out in the community they do it because they care. Currently, at Redondo Union High School, students are not required to maintain a specific number of volunteer hours to graduate. Every now and then administration discusses making volunteer hours a graduation requirement, and whether it would help or hinder the student population. Volunteering in our community should be required because it will allow RUHS students to gain a fresh outlook on life, but this requirement would only be beneficial to students if there was not an unrealistic standard. Most students at our highly praised school strive to be accepted by a four-year university.

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