If service hours were required for graduation it would also carry some negative effects because it takes time commitment and may cause frustration. In order to complete service hours it will take a certain time commitment that many people may struggle to fit in their schedule. Along with time commitment, service hours may cause frustration. "But another key problem is that volunteers can become so committed and involved in their particular cause, they can easily become frustrated that others don't share their passion" ( James Roland, www.livestrong.com, 2018). By doing service hours you risk a certain level of potential attachment that may cause frustration. Finally, service hours can carry negative effects because it is time consuming and may cause frustration.
I believe that service hours would be beneficial to students at BHS because it will give students great and necessary credentials for college, while giving students a rewarding sense. Service hours can not only help complete credentials for college scholarships, but also look good and help students get accepted to colleges/jobs in the future. Along with that students will have a rewarding feeling by doing service hours. "By definition, volunteer work is unpaid, so the rewards you reap will be more emotional and perhaps spiritual rather than financial" (James Roland, www.livestrong.com, 2018). Finally, I believe dervice hours would be beneficial to students at BHS, because it will give students great credentials for future school/job applications, while giving students a rewarding feeling.
While the idea of requiring service hours is appealing, there are some potential flaws which affect the value of the service itself. Your idea that the student will be better off because of more credentials is somewhat flawed. One possible problem would be that by having required service hours, the college or school will disregard these hours because you are not helping your community because you seem like a good person, but because someone made you do it. This alone devalues that aspect of community hours for school. It seems as though you diminished the problem of mental stress. The point of volunteering is that it comes out of the kindness of your heart and should not be stressing you out. This can hurt the student’s studies and overall health. Forcing another aspect besides school upon a child is not beneficial to the school nor the student. Plus, when the highschool looks at all the students, nothing distinguishes them because they will not know who really wants to help the community and who just wants to graduate high school.
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