[DYngbld]

I think community service is a great idea, and should be encouraged, but not required. I see the point and the purpose, but again it should not be required. I serve the community in several different areas because I want to, and I enjoy it.

[hedgetrimmer]

The schools should not be doing it. Their mission has fled so far from academics, that now they are trying to give credits to children for nonacademic work to help them graduate.

America truly has been dumbed down, to be so accepting of this bold grab for power over a child’s social and civic training.

Don’t parents want to parent their children at all any more? How can anyone think a school can do it all for them? I can’t see why people are so blase about this. It is a very insidious way to turn people toward communism, as posters who fled communist bloc countries will attest.