For any student, school can be a perfect setting for them to develop intellectually and emotionally in their crucial formative years. Apart from the syllabus oriented education they learn a lot about all the topics, which only accelerate their development. And the one important component that would also help in student’s development is community service. This thesis will discuss how community service being an important part of student’s ‘education’ should be encouraged by schools, and importantly does the students are really interested in doing it. That is, do they undertake community services because of compulsion or really with conviction? And how schools with aid of students can effect lives of many people in a positive way through community services.

Students could do these services with perfection. Actually, school and its administrators can play their part by inoculating the spirit of community services in students, by making it a part of the student's curriculum. Many schools as well as higher educational institutes in USA are followers of this concept.

This kind of compulsive service surely has a positive spin because even though the student does it as a part of curriculum it affects the lives of people very usefully. But on the other hand, the process of compulsion comes in, because of, student’s lack of interest in community service. That is, apart from being burdened with academic materials, they are enticed by sports, entertainment, street groups etc.

So they show least concern for community service and general people in distress. But all the students cannot be categorized like that because there are students who are doing community services with conviction. But they may have to face another obstacle that is, time limit. Being student in a school they need to fulfil their academic works to be successful in their lives. So, to achieve success and a stable life, they have no other options but to concentrate on exams, projects etc.

So academic activities will surely limit the student’s time wise for community services. This being the truth, the student can surely squeeze in the time they have in between, for community services. So the schools should encourage the service minded students. Also they should promote community services as a three pronged strategy for the people in need, students themselves and for the larger community in general.