Constant battles for a student’s time and attention from multiple classes, clubs, sports, and activities create a challenging environment. What is the answer when there are only twenty-four hours in a day? Multitasking. While juggling multiple projects and assignments, respectively with separate deadlines and due dates, “getting a complete task done in the least amount of time is no longer the priority” (Doc B). Each academic individual has a unique schedule, packed with different assignments and obligations.…
I have completed many hours of community service and I believe that it is my responsibility to involve myself in my community in any way possible. Getting involved in the community helps build a strong character and it teaches certain values that will benefit other communities. Speaking of community improvement, it is also my responsibility to pay any taxes set for me by our state and federal governments. Without taxpayer money, it would be impossible to maintain many of our most precious and crucial government funded organizations. If the American people allowed those organizations to fade away, we would be hurting our country and helping ourselves.…
The Importance of Services passage had some great arguments on why we should serve a year of community service by age 30. They added execellent detials in the passage. They talked about other countries aswell. I just dont agree with everything they said. I feel you shouldn't be forced to do anything unless it's mandatiory.…
People are instructed from a young age to hold regard for those individuals whom live selflessly to bring about a sense of progress towards the greater good of the society that they inhabit. Aside from being told to show respect for these virtuous individuals, people are then told to partake in the same acts so that they too may hold the honor of virtue as well as be a benefit to society. However, this instruction to be unselfish ironically entails rather selfish undertones thus implying that acts of being selfless and those of selfishness both have similar meanings behind them, and thus the line that separates them is blurred. It is Friedrich Nietzsche who uses this argument in critiquing unselfishness within his book, Beyond Good and Evil.…
Eventually everyone has to do some sort of work. However during high school, getting a job can be distracting, and avert a student from focusing on their education. The ways employment can harms a student’s schooling are, the time needed to do work, a lack of sleep through staying up late doing homework, the excitement of earning money, and drugs and alcohol use as a result of extra spending money. Steinberg finishes the article by referencing the belief that a job in adolescence builds character.…
It is optional. Complimenting this claim, he further suggests that even if only half of students, world-wide, become involved in community service, that is still enough people to carry this out as an official quota in the school systems ( Eggers…
Working an after school job is an experience many high school students will never forget. In fact, a lot of students across the country have an after school job. This is no exception to Scottsburg High School; around eighteen percent of adolescent students work part-time jobs (Rembusch). While some students choose to work a part-time job out of desire, some students have to work out of necessity. Regardless of a student’s financial situation, working part-time can have a huge impact on a student’s life.…
Has there ever been the thought being required to participate in volunteer work to graduate? I disagree with the idea of being involved in volunteer work to graduate. Although volunteer work builds character and responsibility but some students just cannot because of their schedules. Students are usually busy after school involved in practice, a part time job, and it is not equally fair to all the students.…
I think even though we personally aren't getting anything it is still important. I also think we could discover talents and abilities through community service. One more reason why community service is important is that it teaches us to be compassionate and understanding. Why you made us do it…
Balancing Work and going to School She dropped down in her seat and let out a big sigh, she than shook her head and preceded to start her car. She knew she wouldn't have time to do her math or english homework she had at home sitting on desk and the more she thought about it the more stressed she became. She wanted to finish out the school year at least good but if she had to quit her job would it be worth it?…
Should incentives be awarded for donating or serving a selfless act? Some teachers award incentives to students to encourage participation. However, some parents believe that this would send a morally wrong message to students. Parents believe that if it was not for the award that was being offered, the students would not participate. Even though incentives could encourage more participation in donation events, students should not be given incentives for serving a selfless act because it encourages students to only participate in donation services when there are rewards involved, it does not give students the right mindset, and does not give students the experience of doing something selflessly.…
Community service is one of those activities that is outside of school and normally on weekends, but if you got to pick your type of service. Would that make it better? There’s thousands of choices that you could pick from to get your community service hours in, like hanging out with the senior citizens, picking up parks, cleaning an older person 's house, highway cleanup, send care packages or even raise money to help someone in need. The way I would spend getting my community service hours would be hanging around the senior citizens. The first reason I would earn my hours with the senior citizens is because they tell great stories.…
Some school districts have begun to require community service volunteering as a mandatory for graduation. Criticism of this policy includes that families will not have the time or resources to support their children to volunteer, while many children and families would benefit from a child committing to a paid job. Conversely, school teachers and professionals claim that community service improves the education and health of the children living in that community. Community support inspires students to support the community after their school years. Therefore, volunteering for community service should be made mandatory for graduation.…
Because of this, the aspect of mandatory volunteering can only encourage teens to get involved in their community. Once they get their feet wet, many realize it is something they love to do. For instance, an eighteen year old senior completed 350 community service hours after being required to do only fifty hours of service. These eye-opening opportunities in high school can lead to a lifelong passion of giving back. Additionally, encouraging students to volunteer also helps their their mind to grow in substantial amounts.…
Earning while learning may be the key to students one day being handed their diploma. (NEWS) A part-time job, seen to some students as something forced upon them by parents, is seen to many others as the key to learning time management and the driving force behind their academic success thus far. (CONTEXT) Jeff Atwood, an Oklahoma State University graduate, worked 30 hour weeks at a landscaping business in order to complete his degree.…