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Originally Posted by 33girl

Your logic is faulty. Completing weekly reports on your job is something you have to do FOR YOUR JOB. Obviously if you don't do your job you don't get paid. If I do community service, my employer isn't going to reward me in any way - because it has NOTHING to do with my job. Why should a student studying theater have to volunteer at a nursing home? It has nothing to do with their career path.

Oh, and if you pay someone for it, IT'S NOT SERVICE.

If we weren't so insistent on remaining the world's policeman that wouldn't be a problem. But that is another thread.

I don't understand what is faulty about it. The same way that completing weekly reports is something you have to do for your job completing community service hours is something you have to do to get the $4,000. Obviously, if you don't do your service you dont get the money.
There are employers that reward employees for doing community service. I never said the two things were related. I used it as an analogy not to show correlation between the two.

A student studying theater would not necessarily have to volunteer at a nursing home. They could volunteer at a theater/performing arts based after school program for youth. Or they could volunteer to put together a play for the people at a nursing home. Or they could volunteer to put on a play with an after school program for youth and have the youth do the play for the people at the nursing home. Community service always relates to a person's career.

From Dictionary.Com:
community service

noun1. a service that is performed for the benefit of the public or its institutions
community service

n.

1. Services volunteered by individuals or an organization to benefit a community or its institutions.

It is still service even if you are paid to do it. By either definition a person who gives a service for the benefit of the community is doing community service. Even if you take the second definition which says that the person must do it voluntarily this would still be considered community service since it is not mandatory for the college students. Most community service organizations provide some type of incentive or reward for their volunteers if they can. Red Cross gives away stuff all the time. Their give aways are the same thing as this $4,000. It is a thank you for helping out.