To The Daily Sun,Recently Denise C. Burke discussed her support of mandated community service for high schoolers. Obviously, her position was a reaction to my two recent letters in The Sun that asserted that it is illegal to require community service for high school graduation. Because student labor has a cash value, that labor cannot be appropriated by a school board. I did not address the worthiness of community service. That is irrelevant to the argument that a student cannot legally be compelled to work for free for a nonprofit, private individual, or government project as a condition of high school graduation.

Source: Daily Sun May 03, 2017 22:18 UTC