Dear members of this illustrious board, hear my humble pleadings. Some might argue students benefit from forced community service. I fervently believe this is wrong. It would be a wrong done to our entire student population to require community service for graduation. Listen to the voices calling out to us from the past. Our history is full of attempts to justify this barbaric practice, yet it takes time and the evidence of our own eyes to see the evil for what it is. Let this be the one time we refuse the temptation and reject forced labor, before we become the ones history condemns for doing nothing.
Forced labor is a concept that has gone by many names over the years. It has gone under the nomenclature of slavery, indentured servitude, …show more content…
It would be a mistake to assume forced community service would have the same benefits. Correlation does not imply causation. One group performing a community service doing well is not evidence that all students will benefit. Volunteers are a self selecting group. Simply by volunteering they have shown that they have time, ambition, drive, money, and innumerable more traits that the general student body doesn't always have. I know that it is tempting to think of all students as clay to be molded into one image, but the truth is we are all individuals. We need to be nurtured to follow our own passions, our own strengths, our own paths to greatness.
One point of contention I would like to address directly and separately is the idea that community service looks good on a college application. Admissions is not going to see forced community service in the same positive light as volunteer service. I briefly touched on the fact that the very act of volunteering shows many character traits. Traits, it happens college's prize. The admissions staff is not going to admit someone because of forced service. Forced community service only shows a student completed required tasks. Coincidently, all the other classes the student completed prove the same
Forced labor is a concept that has gone by many names over the years. It has gone under the nomenclature of slavery, indentured servitude, …show more content…
It would be a mistake to assume forced community service would have the same benefits. Correlation does not imply causation. One group performing a community service doing well is not evidence that all students will benefit. Volunteers are a self selecting group. Simply by volunteering they have shown that they have time, ambition, drive, money, and innumerable more traits that the general student body doesn't always have. I know that it is tempting to think of all students as clay to be molded into one image, but the truth is we are all individuals. We need to be nurtured to follow our own passions, our own strengths, our own paths to greatness.
One point of contention I would like to address directly and separately is the idea that community service looks good on a college application. Admissions is not going to see forced community service in the same positive light as volunteer service. I briefly touched on the fact that the very act of volunteering shows many character traits. Traits, it happens college's prize. The admissions staff is not going to admit someone because of forced service. Forced community service only shows a student completed required tasks. Coincidently, all the other classes the student completed prove the same