The Importance Of Community Service In Education

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For a while now there has been a national debate over whether or not high schools should require their students to participate in community service in order to graduate. Now, there are some obvious reasons against this idea, the idea that you can’t force people to work without the sway of the law. Under the United States Constitution it’s illegal to force anyone to perform servitude to you without pay, unless court ordered. Because of this right it seems that requiring students to perform community service in order to graduate might not be good. On the other hand of this debate is the idea that not only should high schools require students to be involved in community service, but that it’s a good idea to do so. I see no problems with having …show more content…
In middle school I was asked to help coach a basket ball team for the local Special Olympics. Now, I had never been involved in basket ball outside of PE class, but I helped coach those men and women and did so with pride. I remember going to tournaments as if I was the actual coach, dressed up and all. This was something that I enjoyed doing for two of my three years of middle school and it changed my life forever. Before this I had never had any experience with coaching, nor had I really had any authority over anybody. This experience showed me that one of my true callings in life was to coach people. Ever since middle school I’ve been helping coach younger students in everything that I’m involved in. Currently I’m an assistant coach for the Worland High School Debate Team where I help students with Lincoln Douglas debate. I also help younger members in drama through the high school by teaching them ins and outs of a stage and performance time. Most notably and importantly to me is the fact that I help coach FFA in my local chapter the Chief Washakie FFA. I’m currently the president of the chapter and because of this I use my authority and responsibilities to help coach members for contest, especially in Poultry judging. I do all of these things out of the goodness of my heart and the satisfaction of seeing …show more content…
In Wyoming as well as other places around the United States highways are adopted to be cleaned by residents in the area. This a really cool program and places the responsibility on the people who live there and not on the state government. If my high school were to require people to perform a certain amount of hours to community service before they could graduate I would help clean up a section of highway. I don’t know that I would necessarily adopt a section under my name, but I would suggest the high school adopt a couple sections under its name. This would allow students who were looking for good ways to get some hours in to go out on certain days and clean up the highways. Currently my family has a section of highway that we’ve adopted and take care of and it doesn’t require a whole lot of work, just the time to walk your area every once in a while. This is a great way for students to get their community service out of the way by helping keep clean the area that they live in. If my high school were to require community service I would go out and clean up the highway at least twice a month, except during the winter. It amazes me the amount of people who actually litter along popular roads. In all honesty it really irks me that these people can throw their garbage out their window into the wild and not feel bad about it. The ironic part of the

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