Quote Originally Posted by coraline79 View Post
As a former School Teacher, I think manditory community service would be great. Maybe it would give the self consumed youth of america the opportunity to gain a perspective other than there self consumed parents point of view. Children of this era are such weak, narrow minded, spoiled brats.

The problem with this argument is that we, the parents, pay OUR taxes which sends OUR children to school. The parents are the ones who should be making decisions how our children are to be raised and what activities they are involved in, not the school, not the government and certainly not Mr. Obama. Despite one's general opinion of the state of the youth today, it is dangerous to hand our youth over to the state for more state control.

If suddenly it was teachers who had to be expected "volunteer" 50 hours of community service per year, I wonder what the thought process would be. Or if Mr. Obama suggested that for the right to drive on the our roads, which our taxes pay for, the citizens would be expected to "volunteer" 50 hours of community service. If "voluntary" community service is good for one group, our children, isn't good for all?

I think it is important to remember, the officials of the government are elected to serve us, not vice-versa.