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The problem us cuh-razy extreme-right libertarian folks have with this idea is n ot the "community service" part, it is the "public schools forcing" part. I had no community service requirement to graduate from middle or high school, and likely would have opposed such a requirement -- listing volunteering protesting such a requirement as, in fact, community service.
Forced community service teaches a valuable lesson which public schools want desperately to force into the mush-brained youth: The State owns you. It is completely contrary to the principles espoused in the consitution and by our founders for the people to be servants/slaves to the state, and not the other way around.
Perhaps if we force our kids to volunteer and serve the state, they won't mind as much when we forcibly take away their civil liberties when they're older. We can force them to give up their hard-earned money and property. We can force them to fight in wars that we wage. We can force them to give up their freedom with but a whimper. Forced community service is wrong and something public schools should not be allowed to preach, er, I mean teach.
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seretogis - sieg heil
perfect little dream the kind that hurts the most, forgot how it feels well almost
no one to blame always the same, open my eyes wake up in flames
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