text: A way that they could do it for a reason would be if you emailed the students parents and told them that you would like it if the students would take part in some community service once in a while that would be better. If you did that then the parents would just say no our schedule does not have room for it. Another thing that the parents could say is that they just don't want to. They could also say that we will try to get in some community service when ever our schedule has an opening for it. But i think that if you sent an email to the parents than you would get more students doing community service than you would if you made it mandatory.