Community Service: Should It Be Mandated?

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This essay is an opinion piece, providing highly emotional and logical, though not factual, reasons to mandate community service across all campuses.

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"It has been a quiet revolution; a slow conquest of every secondary educational institution reminiscent of the fierce island hopping of the Pacific theater. In the next few years, it seems inevitable that no high school, from sea to shining sea, will dare bestow a diploma upon its graduates without both an aptitude proven by state tests and a record of community service. To a multitude of students, this is anathema, a travesty deserving not intelligent debate but a brutal counterattack, a perversion of every syllable of the phrase community service. To others, it is the last method of instilling some virtue in a populace sinking into a pit of shameless decadence, of moral relativism, of inherent hostility to the very notion of "love thy neighbor." Although both opinions bear streaks of extremism, I would prefer to cast my lot with the second, not because of their somewhat foolishly na've reason but due to the proven potential of enforced community service."

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