text: Community service is not only important in all communities, but it can be the difference between a clean, put together community, or one that could be known to outsiders as a "dump." Without those who help out in their free time, communities all over can start to look really sloppy. When students are required to give some of their time up on a weekend or in the free-time after school, it can change their mind. At first they may just be hesitant but after they get out there and help the community out it can really change someone's thoughts about the subject. This could then lead to a chain reaction of teens helping out, when one friend tells another, who tells another, and so on!