Community Service...

                                  Essay Prompt # 2

Prompt: Many junior high schools and high schools around the country now require students to spend a certain number of hours each term doing volunteer work or community service. Some people believe this is an excellent idea that promotes good citizenship and cultivates compassion. Others feel that forces volunteerism is not volunteerism at all. How do you feel about this issue? Use specific reasons and examples to support your position.

Wouldn’t you want your children to attend one of the best universities in the country? Most top universities want new incoming students to have certain character traits, such as responsibility and good citizenship. With these traits, top universities will know that those students will be responsible college students, which will get good grades. Recently in the last years, high schools have been making their students do community service, which I think is a great idea.

Community service is a life learning experience that all teens or children, should do when their old enough. As I said earlier, it helps you acquire character traits, that you will need in life in order to be successful. I know everyone has big dreams and want to achieve them. Although no one will achieve their dreams without having certain character traits, that will push them, that will show them perseverance. Community service shows this, because it pushes you to do your best, to help your community in every way you can, and to make it a better place than it might be already. Until you feel satisfied as a person, that you have done everything you can to help the poor, sick, and in need. There is no better way, but to learn this by community service.

It not only gives you special traits, but it also keeps teens out of bad influence. Many teens live around negative influences that can attract them at times, because of simple reasons, they do not have anything to do or peer pressure. This happens often every day, but one way that it can be stopped is by helping your community. Community service, entertains you, and at the same time, it teaches you life lessons or experiences. Sometimes, community service requires you to get your hands dirty, which is good. Most f the time, it will teach you how to plant or help your local mission cook for the homeless, which most teens do not know how to do. Little tools as those may be helpful to them in the future, to be as a hobby or to even be as experience for a new job.

Most importantly community service has a big impact in high schools and universities. Most high schools now require their students to do a certain amount of community service hours to graduate. This requirement is good, t was made to give a chance to the students to learn and help their community. Although it was also made, so that the universities could see the students help and care about their community, and have learned life experiences while doing it. This shows universities that the students have grown and matured, universities like this because there is a lot of freedom in college, which is why they want students that have certain character traits such as responsibility. I support this idea heavily, it helps students in a way that nothing else can.

This whole idea is about helping students, in their life, and in their education. Community service is a perfect way to help your community in a positive manner, while you complete your hours for you school. I support this concept and strongly advise you as well too, because it will someday help your child as well.