text: Many of your students may already be doing community service, which is a wonderful thing. At the same time, many of your students may not be doing community service. That is their choice. If they would rather play basketball, or video games, or whatever they want to do instead of help out others, it should be their decision. As much as I believe community service is a good thing, you don't know what the students are doing instead of this. For all you know, they could be helping their families out at home, or getting active and playing sports, maybe even studying for their school work, If you take away their free time, you just may be causing negative effects on your students learning.