Community Service Essay

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Title Students should be made to do compulsory community service. What is your opinion? Paragraph 1 Community service is a donated or activity that is performed by someone or a group of people for the benefit of the public or its institutions. Community service has become a buzzword in many schools and universities around the nation. There is much debate surrounding the idea of making community service mandatory for students. Some say it should not be made mandatory, many say it should. Introductory sentences Thesis Statement In this essay, I would disagree on the statement that states students should be made to do compulsory community service. Schools should focus on creating a rigorous academic environment to prepare students for college and beyond, and they should let volunteering be a personal student’s decision. Paragraph 2 First and foremost, in this day and age students are almost “over- scheduled”. Between school obligations, athletics, and other extra-curricular activities, is it fair to add more into the mix? No, of course. Some argue that forced community service would not be true community service at all. Being a volunteer simply implies altruism that the individual would seek no self benefit for the service they were doing. The lack of internal motivation may lead to poor performance in the service activity. Thus, students should not be forced to do community service. Main idea 1 Supporting details Paragraph 3 Main idea 2 Supporting details Secondly, community service should be made optional. This is because, if community service is made compulsory to students, then even if they have a small wish of doing social work, will lose interest in doing so. In this way, public will also lose many volunteers who have the interest on doing social works. Furthermore, if community service is made mandatory,
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