Student Servicing hours

The best pro that service hours has is that it builds up for outside opportunities and allows you to learn more life skills you may need for the future or future jobs. "Students who make a commitment to volunteering in their community will gain exposure from different cultures, backgrounds and ages" (Pearce Classroom.synonym.com 2018).  It also allows students to be more diverse and open minded about decisions and problems in the future helping them through life. Or for a student that volunteers their time with the elderly can learn from them and get some life lessons on what not to do or what is good in life. This is a very important role in service hours which is teaching you or getting you ready for the future. 

Too much service hours can scare someone away from future service hours or future involvement. Mandated service-learning requirements may or may not be perceived as external control, but if they are, this perception can alter the student’s desire in the future to continue being socially active (Deci Classroom.synonym.com 1985). Service hours and the pressure it puts on some students may mess with their head and their social interaction. Then in the future it could mess with future opportunities they may have had before the service hours getting to them. 

I believe that a small amount of service hours should be mandatory, but if the student seems incapable at performing then just don't allow them to do the service hours. Only let the students that have the free time and that seem capable or more than capable to do service hours. Since they are the ones that seem to want to go to college more and will be closer to success and get better opportunities in the future. Or students that completely fell down the hole have them try to earn some responsibility so they can learn more about the future and what is expected of them. If they do service hours then it will help them learn a bunch of life lessons that they will need so it will help them succeed.