"Required" public service? Is it hazing?

[pollywogg23]

First off let me say that I am all for community service, and if a school is going to require it for graduation I say more power to them, but I think that the point that some are trying to make is that if my chapter or any GLO required our New Member class to do however many hours of community service before initiation, and someone had a problem with it we probably would get nailed for hazing.
Now I don't necessarily think that people would have a problem with the whole community service thing, it's just that hazing is anything that makes someone uncomfortable, it doesn't have to be something that harms them, but if someone feels uncomfortable doing community service, and we make them, isn't that hazing?

[Kevin]

1. As far as calling required community service "hazing"... that's almost laughable. It fits just fine into Sigma Nu's hazing policy which I'm pretty sure is about the same with other NIC organizations.

As long as we don't make them do it at strange hours and it doesn't interfere with scholastics there isn't a problem.

2. If a public school wants to alter its curriculum then that is up to the individual school. Here in Oklahoma it's a decision made by the school board.

Fact: The school/school board sets the curriculum, NOT THE PARENTS, NOT THE STUDENTS...

I thought having to take 3 years of math going into a non mathmatical major in college was unfair also. The school didn't seem to care.

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I think the requirment is a great way to broaden kids horizons and applaud the administrators. I was required to do 100 hours of community service for graduation and I actually enjoyed it.