Today, too few students leave educational systems with these abilities. Community service teaches process as content, as does life. Niche leaders are ,those who believe that they can do a particular process or make a particular product better than anyone else. Schools can use this idea in combination with community service to show both the community and other schools they can achieve a unique and recognized excellence in a particular area. Niches engender support and pride on the part of community leaders and the school family.
Community service is the best way to find and establish a niche.
Establishes the school as a talent base for the community. Within each school there are talented faculty members who have the background and knowledge to help solve specific community problems. In addition, the student population represents a constantly renewable manpower base. The main impediments to the use of these resources are a lack of vision on the part of the school, and the continuing fear by school district legal departments of the liability issue in community projects. Nevertheless, recent criticisms of the schools, and the lack of resources or means to meet basic community needs requires a rethinking of traditional responses.