In all four years of high school, it was required that we perform twenty-five hours of community service each year before being promoted to the next grade level. It was impossible for us to graduate without those 100 hours of community service. My high scho

Getting back to my pet peeve, if community service is made a requirement in high school, then maybe kids will realize all the luxuries they have in life. That there are many things they have in life that they take for granted, and no matter what they think, there are plenty of less fortunate people in this world who could use some of the luxuries they have acquired. Understanding and realizing the problems of the world are two different things, and the only way to understand and solve selfishness in the world is to teach it early. To me, community service is the most logical way of understanding and preventing selfishness, vainness, arrogance, and conceitedness.

However, performing community service was not the only thing that opened my eyes to some of the problems that arise in our society. I once took a trip to Caracas, Venezuela. Beautiful land, yet I have never seen so many people in need as I did there: people living in shacks on mud hills, not being able to eat for long periods of time, wearing the same clothes day after day, and not ever being able to take showers to clean themselves. That trip made me realize all the things I have that I take for granted. Just the luxuries of having clean sheets to sleep on every night, or even having clothes to sleep in for that matter, are some of the things we take for granted. I do not know how much it would mean to me if I lost those things in life. Everyone hates it when the power goes out during a storm, I know I do. Just imagine living without power, running water, or even a roof over your head for your entire life. That is the most devastating way of life, yet there are thousands of people that live like that everyday and the number increases by the hundreds every hour.

Now I know that forcing community service is not anyone’s favorite thing, but it might actually work. Now if I am thinking on the right track, here is an idea. Not only should community service be enforced and recommended, but it should also be a requirement. (Wait, I think the light bulb just came on in my head.) If you get a group of high school students together and make them do community service, just imagine what that could do for the surrounding area. It would create a sense of community living, and even promote more college institutions and high schools to do the same thing. Anne Lewis states, “T

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