Community Service To Graduate High School

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I myself, a high school student, should in fact be required to do community service to graduate high school. The amount of volunteers are dropping at a rapid rate when it should be increasing. Students have become more and more lazy throughout the years, and doing community service will help them to get up and go outside to enjoy life and all the things around them that they haven't been aware of because their face has been stuck in a television/phone screen. Many students who have volunteered loved it because not only did they get to meet new people, but they also learned that they were actually making a difference with what they did. The students who do community service will better understand how to be a leader, which is very important for when they go into the real world. Students also get a great attitude, they will go from feeling that they "can't" do something, to the fact that they CAN do things as long as they work hard for. Every high school student faces tough decisions, and most of the time they give up on it because they feel they "can't" do it. Becoming a volunteer will change that attitude around and it will help them to realize that they can tackle any of these tough problems …show more content…

You get to meet new people, work with new organizations, and strengthen their ties to the community. This helps get students out of the house and participate in something that will help prepare them for something big, like their future. Having students do community service is just gonna help them a lot, and who wouldn't want help? Who would want to go into the real world and not be prepared at all? Nobody. Students may want to do some things on their own, but not something as big as going into the real world, they need a little push towards the right direction, and community service will help with

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