| The *vast* majority of the high schoolers I know (admittedly this is a small sliver of total students, but I do have a child who's a junior in HS) just resent the community service. They'd rather be spending those hours either at their *paid* jobs saving money for college (or watever) or at home relaxing (or doing their AP homework or... or...). It may be too soon to know whether overall it instills anything other than a bad taste in kids' mouths, but I'm not holding my breath. |