Community Service

Community service, I think, is essential and should be demanded of all students at any school. Since the seventh grade, I have had been forced to participate in community service. In seventh and eighth grade, i was required to turn in 15 hours of community service per year. As I had graduated and went off to Rockhurst High School the requirements became more demanding and challenging. My freshman through junior years I was required 15 hours of service per each first semester of school. The second semester required 20 hours of service. This was very challenging and related a lot to time management as well. If you had a weekend free, you had to find a place to work. This was especially hard if you played 3 sports throughout high school. I played football, basketball, and baseball until I was a senior. This made it very difficult to find time to go out and help others. Although my senior year was very different than the past three years. My senior year of high school truly defines my participation in community service. I feel I have never grown as much in my life. We were assigned a senior service project. We were supposed to go out and find a school, daycare center, nursing home, etc. and make an appointment to talk about working for their organization throughout the month of January. We had been assigned hours where and when to be and we had to give this information to our school. Teachers would check us everyday to make sure that we showed up at our appropriate locations. I volunteered at a daycare center in a highly Hispanic area. They were very impoverished and didn't have much. The experience I had with these kids was one that I will never forget.