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Disagree with Volunteer Service


            Before I entered Fordham Prep, I was not informed that I would have to volunteer in order to graduate. If I had been told this it could have influenced my decision in coming to the school. However, once I did find out about service, I was very against it from the start. I didn't see any point in wasting my time doing other people's work for them, and not get paid for it. In fact, I was extremely aggravated that I would be forced to do just that.
             I refused to do my fifteen hours of service in my junior year, even when I was told that if I did not complete my junior service requirements I would have to waste one hundred hours in senior year. Therefore I was looking forward to senior year less and less as the days went by, yet I continued to refuse to do my junior hours.
             I heard the "reasons" we were given in service class, as to why we were required to do service, however, I did not see the significance of doing service. Nobody in the real world volunteers, because you can't pay bills without an income. The whole thing seemed completely immoral to me, and I felt that the students of Fordham who had been attending the school for the whole four years, had simply been brainwashed into thinking it was natural, and "right" to be a "man for others".
             I chose to do my service project at the Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale, not because I enjoy spending time with old people, but because I could get my hours done there fast, and I had been told by somebody else, that it was easy to go there. I figured, if I was going to be forced into something I didn't want to do, I would take the easiest way out.
             When I first went to the Hebrew Home, I immediately thought the place was a prison because it is so heavily guarded. I went in, and I was given a brief tour of the buildings, and then I took a couple of safety awareness tests.
             The staff in the Hebrew Home, other than the people who worked in the volunteer department, did not seem welcoming whatsoever to top off the whole thing.


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