"Volunteer" Hours

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Community service hours are now often required to graduate. They are ironically called "volunteer" hours as if the students are being given a choice. I have no problem with volunteer work but this is bullshit. It's just another way for the State to mold students into "good citizens."

It's like how governments and schools don't allow certain opinions. At my school it's a rule that you have to respect everybodies opinion. That's a load of crap. If you want to deny other's freedom then I will blatantly tell you that your opinion is fucking stupid and you should be horsewhipped for being such an idiot. I was reading this article by a conservative and I actually agreed with part of it. It said that liberals are idiots because they base every decision on whether or not it is nice or not to do it to somebody. I disagree with that sentiment in general but it certainly does apply to how the State wants us to behave. "Don't talk to that person that way, it's not nice." or "How dare you deny the suffering of the Holocaust! Shame on you, you bad person."

Volunteer hours are just an extension of the desire to mold students into good, obedient citizens. Like I said, I have no problem with volunteering. I do have a problem when an agent of the government tries to change people by ordering them around. Forcing students to do community service justs cuts into already dwindling free time. It's bad enough that students have to deal with school, they also have to deal with school taking over their free time. It used to be just homework but for the last decade or so, most students have had to do community service. I have to do forty hours which isn't that much but it's still forty hours too much.