text: Another reason is that some students would blow off the community service. This would mainly be the ones who did not do community service in the first place. In this scenario, there would be no point in making community service mandatory at all. I can pretty much guarantee that the ones who didn't do community service in the first place would not do it anyway. Besides, some students already help the community without calling it "community service". Some students do nice things for people but don't consider that community service.