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I Wish My Own School Had A Service Component

Mon, 2012-10-22 08:00 -- cmurphy

Today's post is written by Lance Trebesch, CEO of TicketPrinting.com & Ticket River, which offers a variety of event products and ticketing services. After 19 years of Silicon Valley experience, Lance found the key to happiness is helping customers worldwide beautify and monetize their events with brilliant print products and event services.

In a recent Points of Light guest post, Samantha Gray asked a question: should community service be a graduation requirement? This question stuck with me for many days. On my drive to work, I'd find myself thinking about it and pondering the many arguments for or against. Instinctually, I felt against such an idea. After all, volunteerism should be about intent, not coercion. But then another idea struck me.

Should Community Service be a Graduation Requirement?

Mon, 2012-09-17 08:00 -- cmurphy

Today's guest post is written by Samantha Gray who was born and raised in Houston, Texas. She is now a writer for bachelorsdegreeonline.com and she loves receiving feedback from her readers at samanthagray024@gmail.com.

At my high school, we were required to complete 10 hours of community service in order to receive an honors diploma. I fulfilled my hours by feeding the destitute in a local soup kitchen, cleaning and planting in the fresh air as part a park beautification project, and finally (and more prosaically) stuffing envelopes for a human rights group. It was an interesting and eye-opening experience. I felt both a rush of empowerment and an enhanced appreciation for the tremendous difficulties and beautiful possibilities out there in the world beyond my teenage bubble.

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