text: Students should do community service, but community service should be done due to the goodness of someone's heart, not due to the force of someone's hand. What do you expect to accomplish by forcing students into work? We have child labor laws for a reason. And if you try using community service as a punishment people wont listen. They wont listen, and they wont care. Now yes i understand that maybe some dictators through out history may have needed to take a step back and really see how their environment was hurting and try to change it. But why did most tyrants in history become tyrannic? As children they felt like everyone was against them, they felt closed off from everyone else, and maybe that wouldn't have happened if the home that they grew up in, and the town that they were raised in was cleaner and safer.