Persuasive Essay On Community Service Hours

Imagine you’re a high school student a few weeks away from graduation day. You walk into the guidance office and talk to the counselors about your path to graduate. They say you have completed and have credits in all the specific areas that you’re required to. Although, it looks as if you hadn’t completed your twenty hours of community service that you must to also graduate. You start to panic, twenty hours, is that even possible to do in a few weeks? Community service is voluntary work intended to help people in a particular area of expertise. High schools across the United States have begun to incorporate community service hours into their graduation requirements. Community service comes in many forms, from preparing houses to tutoring younger students. I support adding that requirement to graduate. Community service doesn’t just have to be a punishment, when we are younger and capable we should try to volunteer a certain amount of hours to others. There is other citizens that could use a hand or help, by requiring this we make sure to give back to the community for all that they do for us. If Worland High School put this into …show more content…
The Humane Society is ran by few people, and there are hundreds of animals in there that need cared for. It’s hard for the lady’s to keep up on cleaning the place, while also care for each animal. I, years ago, did community service there and seeing the look on the woman’s face when I would do something or help her in any way was always rewarding. If I washed the walls, picked up dog poop, walked the dogs, played with the kittens, or bathed the animals she would sign with relief that that was one less thing that she had to worry about doing herself. She has a lot on her plate, and for someone to go in there to help out means a great deal to her. Clearly, the last place that I would volunteer my time for community service would be the Humane