text: It should be our choice to do community service or not because first of all we as children or preteens shouldn't be required or forced to do those kind of things cause we our children not adults, and there is nothing in this country stating we have to do community service. Also sometimes from school, sports, and other activities we do we are very busy as is, and adding community service on to that we just make us more stressed as we sometimes are with all those things going on. Another reason why we shouldn't is that we want to hang out with friends and do a lot of fun things with them, such as going to the mall, seeing a movie, and playing outside on a nice day, but if we have community service we cant do all those things. Then with a lot of people saying children have to start getting outside and getting more active, what are we going to do if we have community service to do we wont be able to get more active, are we. Also sometimes we receive a lot of homework at school or have a big project to do, then if we have to do community service we might not be able to finish it before school the next day, which can get us behind on what we were doing in that class and ruining our grades.