Essay About Community Service

Throughout my time in high school and seeing all of the graduation requirements that come and go not once has community service come up. I personally think it is a great idea. Helps us high school students give back to the community. How many people come to sporting events, support clubs, and donate their time and resources to the high school out of the kindness of their hearts? A lot, especially in a small community like ours. The other thing is I think that the term community service is always followed by the question, “what did you get in trouble for?” which is very sad. So many people think that the only reason high school kids, most of the time, are doing this service because they have so many hours to fill. There are so many things that this community is in need of that it wouldn’t be hard to find any number of projects to do. Some examples of these are; fixing various things in parks, cleaning up around our little town, and donating our time at various nonprofit organizations. We have many parks in our little community and many of which really need maintenance. Fences need repaired, explicit words and sayings need to come off playground equipment, multiple other things. This wouldn’t be that hard of a job to do really. We talk to the …show more content…
Incorporating community service into graduation requirements is a great way to give back to the community. Our community gives so much to our high school and helps us so much it’s the least we could do. Look at sporting events and clubs, some community members just show up to help they don’t have a relative in the activity. Helping put something on for kids is not a problem with the help of our community. They need to be reminded that community service isn’t just because we got arrested but because we would really like to give back and in a way say thank you to those that are always helping the high