Someone Actually Wrote This, Part I

From today's Orange County Register "Letters":

Forcing kids to volunteer

John Kerry's recent call for high school students to be coerced into "mandatory service" programs is immoral. We sentence criminals to perform "community service," not innocent children at a time in their lives when they should be focusing on their own self-development.

If adults want to "serve the community" voluntarily they may. But before they can do that they must first become self-sustaining, productive individuals; this, not involuntary servitude, is the purpose of education.

[Name removed]

Santa Ana