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Originally Posted by 33girl
Then I equate it to someone who has zero interest in the military enlisting so they can get money for college. I don't approve of that program either. You should be in the military because you want to serve your country, not to get something from it and gritting your teeth the whole time. That isn't how the GI Bill was supposed to work. I say the same about community service. Do it because you truly want to, not because you're checking it off on a resume or to get $$ for college. That isn't "service" from my vantage point.
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I understand why you would want a person to want to do what they're doing, but that is not entirely realistic.
I have no problem with someone enlisting just so they can get an education. They can grit their teeth through their military service as long as they do their job well and dont cause any problems (that includes having a bad attitude).
I think that suggesting that young people should only do community service because they want to is sending the wrong message. In life we all have to do things that we don't want to. As you grow up you realize that you cannot always do what you want and get what you want in life.
That's like an employer saying that an employee should complete detailed weekly reports because they want to and not because they want to get a promotion or a check at the end of the week. Incentive motivates people. That is the whole point behind paying college students for community service. People do what is necessary as a means to an end. The goal is to get $4,000 for school and the way to get it is to serve your community. A lot of the choices young people will make in the real world will be reflective of this situation. In life young people will want things. Getting these things will be their goals. Young people need to learn that nothing will be handed to them. If you want to achieve your goals then you have to make a plan and execute that plan. Said plan will most likely include many things that the person will not want to do, but the person will have to do them as a means to achieve the goal. That is how life works.
Frankly, I think college-aged people should understand this (and use this to their advantage) and middle school and high school students should be learning this. The grade school students would come out of highschool with a healthy respect for community service and would go into college being rewarded for the service they do.
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