<p>Hey guys! as you know the date is closing in so just started practicing the essay. Y'all people be so kind to read and mark my essay?</p>
<p>Prompt-</p>
<p>In some high schools, students are required to complete a certain number of community service hours prior to graduation. Some people think community service is a good requirement because they think students will benefit from this experience. Other people think schools should not require community service because students will resent the requirement and, as a result, will not benefit from the experience. In your opinion, should high schools require students to complete a certain number of hours of community service?
In your essay, take a position on the question. Use specific reasons and examples to support your position.</p>
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<p>What has happened to the land of the free and home of the brave? In this time of the corrupt era, it is saddening that a pure and the most loving form of giving has been affected by it too.</p>
<p>Community service, as the name describes, it means to give back to the society you live, grow, dwell and prosper in. To give back to the soldiers who stand like a rock for days together or to teachers who have sacrificed their lives in shining and polishing raw diamonds. Enforcing it in schools as a graduation requirement completely backfires the whole motive, just the way our school summer reading does.</p>
<p>As stated in the beginning, freedom is where goodwill thrives. Students will look at community service as a thing to 'just finish' so that their hard earned GPA are not affected. A statistic presented by the US News and World Report included that a shocking 91% of the students haven't done community service by their own initiative. The pushing factors were parents, school requirement but the most voted was 'to look good on college application'. Reading that saddened every part of me. It is just like saying 'Oh Jack helped a guy fight illiteracy, he should definitely be admitted to XYZ college'. On the other hand, no doubt some may get the drive after a force or a start as they weren't aware or hadn't strolled down that path but those numbers are really very few.</p>
<p>Some schools think that students will benefit from this experience. A school going kid has yet to see and understand the world completely. His goals are small and they'll prioritize their completion of the compulsory hours before they let their heart do the talking. As cliche as it sounds, a lot of people boast about 'the number of hours' they've gathered doing community service. As said by a poet Do kind work and throw it in the ocean. We need to to stop boasting how much sacrifice we've made. I personally feel that I'd rather not portray myself as a 'giver' and then keep using its advantages for the rest of my life. We have already lost education into the narrow domestic walls and perception of 'fixed courses' and to add community service in it, it is another step in the wrong direction. Lending an ear and a kind heart to somebody or even a smile is way better and caring than just 'donating to the poor'. How dull does that sound?</p>
<p>It seems pretty nonsensical to me that the graduation requirement mandates a certain numbers of community service hours. It turns such a noble and respected service into a boring necessity of school. I, too have volunteered in my school trips to various old age homes for a compulsory 2 hours a week. As soon as the clock reads 16:01 PM, we are ordered to hop up in our buses and the underprivileged are not even let to complete their final sentence. I think our schooling systems and authorities need to sit down and re evaluate everything. And about students, well you know that they can do almost anything for good grades and this is just a small issue.</p>
<p>When it comes to solving our societal and schools woes, as said BR Ambedkar that schooling should have no requirements. Sit in whichever class you like, whichever courses to take and then you will be truly knowledgeable. You can take the horse to the well but can't force him to drink water.</p>
I thought I might not even touch the double digit mark.</p>