required service hours

      Students are required by state in some places to do community service in order to graduate. The community has all these different jobs that need to be done but nobody is willing to do them. The schools try and help out by requiring students to do these jobs for free so that the jobs get done. "Service learning is often a hard sell because folks think it's one more thing" added to the curriculum, when in fact it can enhance learning" (Swierk). The service hours are to help the community and to help the students get involved in the community.
      Most students that are going to high school and have a job plus all their homework leaves not a lot of time for doing work for free. The students can forget about it sometimes because they have these other events going on in their lives. Such as graduating, finding a college, finding a full time job, and still do their school work do not always think of community service first. "last count showed 93 of the school’s 378 seniors had come up short on the Maryland state graduation requirement"(Wagner). The students have done k-12 of school and been able to pass it all and then get denied their graduation because they didn't do the community service that nobody that is graduated and an adult will do.
      If students were forced to do community service then the students would most likely not want to do it in the future without it being mandated. Most students do not want to do the work in the first place so forcing them to do it would not make it seem like as helpful or as fun of a job as it can be. Some of the community service jobs can be fun because you can meet some interesting people, but forcing kids to get 100 hours of community service seems like a bit much. that is making students spend over 4 days doing things that you wouldn't even do which is why the students have to do them. So if you wouldn't do it as a grown adult then why would you make the kids do it on top of going to school and work because kids just want to be kids.