Community Service

The community service "thing" , is a must for graduating high school. Why is it that this is necessary for graduation. Honestly, I don't believe that it should be part of graduation. This is something like extracurricular activities that look good on your resume, not being mandatory as it is now. I know they're trying to make you get ready to work in the future, but the system is very flawed. Some of my friends had 40 hours of community service and somehow it gets "lost" in the school's records. Honestly, I think that if the system is so flawed, they shouldn't make it mandatory to take. What do you think about community service?