Mandatory Service For High School Graduates

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Mandatory service for high school graduates can create a lot of controversy. There are places that depend on volunteer service and that need people to help out, but no one is coming to help. This is bringing up the idea of requiring all high school graduates to spend one year in service before attending college. There are many reasons as to why people think this is a good idea, but there is also many opposing this. An enthusiast of this may think that it is a good opportunity for high school graduates to help serve our country when we need it. It will give them a chance to see if they like being in service while also helping out our country. Services that depend on volunteers aren’t getting enough help and requiring high school graduates to …show more content…

Requiring every high school graduate to serve will make it evenly distributed between everyone so not every will carry the weight on them and make it feel fair between society. By having this sense of fair distribution it’ll make everyone feel better about doing it so they don’t have to feel like they’re the only one that has to serve the country when we all share the country together. First, from an opposing viewpoint, this requirement might seem to demoralize the quality of the services. This does so by letting just anyone join the services needed and they may not know what they’re doing or they don’t want to so they rebel. This undermines the quality because anyone will be able to abuse the power they were given in the service and can ruin it or damage it. Whether it’s military service or civic-minded organizations, they all play a role and one person can ruin it. Then, it could build social antipathy. Some individuals have strong feeling towards services such as the military and do not care to partake in it. Some may think that the government is punishing the youth and graduates by forcing them to serve their country before they can attend college. This can stir up conflict within they society about why congress would do this and how they can change it or how they can refuse to

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