Originally Posted by Digital_Eon
Originally Posted by Rhode Kamelot
As for Obama's plans? 100 hours of community service for all college students is one of his ideas for bettering this country (which he doesn't support), and that makes no sense whatsoever. Service is something you need to be willing to do, otherwise it's work.
And what's wrong with it being work?
As someone who has experienced forced community service (40 hours to graduate from highschool), I can honestly say that it really wasn't that bad. Had I not been required to do it, I might never have been motivated to - but it was an interesting experience, one that made me and those I volunteered with feel pretty good about what we did. Sure, people will grumble about having to do it, but when you're actually doing the work it's not that bad at all - and it's a great experience to have. I think that might be a great thing for students to do in order to open their eyes to issues in the world and encourage people to do something about it, something more than just being aware and saying you want change.
Same here, in face my college already has forced community service which I'm a little "uhg" on, however I'm also glad they are doing it so we get a taste of life and learn to appreciate it.