The Benefits Of Volunteer Work And Community Service

Many schools require students to participate in community service, but I think this is a good idea. Many schools do not require students to volunteer in community service. I agree that students should have to volunteer to graduate. I think that students should be forced to volunteer for community service sometime in their high school career as it makes people work and shows them what work really is. It also gets people off there lazy tail.

Forcing students to volunteer can make their community service hours falsified. This is because it was not necessarily their choice to go out and help the community. Yet, since the students are required to do so they will more than likely record their required community service on their resume, as if it was something that they chose to do. This can be a

Community service should be required because it prepares you for some thing you will need in life such as leadership skills,responsibility, time management, and the will to work with others.For students in high school they have lots of obstacles that can keep them from doing what they love or effecting there upcoming lives or enjoying their community. Some people never realize how much there communities need them till they the one who need a helping hand (khan 1).

“‘The Logic of Mandatory Volunteerism”, by Stewart Ains, is an intriguing piece regarding the assertion that community service should be a requirement for graduation from high school. There are a multitude of arguments fighting this claim, but as a high school student who has to complete this task, I have strong feelings about why it is significant. If community service was not required by high schools, a vast number of students who attend that school would never have the opportunity to do something to give back. Completing community service can also benefit a student on his or her college applications and can help when deciding what one is passionate about. Accomplishing something for the community can teach a great deal of life lessons,

Volunteers have much pride for what they do. If they are obligated to work they will not feel the same benefit. As said in "The Heart of Service", "The joy that volunteers feel will be weakened ". Volunteers enjoy helping others and the rewarding feeling it comes with. As said above community service is used as a punishment for small crimes. In "The Importance of Service" it is said that "The United States was founded on our right to pursue happiness". Those who are required to do community

Many teens right now in America spend their free time watching T.V, going to parties, or just being with their friends. What if those teens changed their activities to something that could actually help society? By making volunteering mandatory for all students in American high schools, we can actually do that. Volunteering makes you a better person, exposes you to different things in life, and helps your society, so why not make all those things necessary to graduate? Your tedious sunday afternoons could be spent helping injured animals, taking care of jovial children, or even fundraising for the poor. Those were only some of the things you can do if you just try spending your free time volunteering. Unless we make volunteering mandatory some teens will never even have the chance to try to do some of those things. As an example, Gandhi once said, “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

Not to mention, some kids don’t have time in order to volunteer. Their jobs can be a more important factor in their lives, at this given moment. Our schools are not offering you something that you wouldn’t be able to do. If we believe it would put too much on teenagers, we wouldn't even consider doing it. Just a simple ten to twenty hours of volunteering throughout your high school career, could be beneficial to you. Could you imagine someone you don’t even know just asking if you could use some help. Not to disregard anyone of their capabilities, but to make our community stronger. By becoming a stronger community, we will all interact with each other. This can happen if we make volunteering a requirement in high schools. How will becoming a overall better community, make you question your loved one´s kindness and helpfulness towards a

Many high schools across America have inserted community service hours as a graduation requirement. This adjustment teaches leadership, positive work ethics, and community involvement habits. It truly is a good appendage to the many requirements of graduation. This adjustment creates gateways for various categories of services towards the community. From volunteering at the humane society, picking up trash or even helping a family move to a new home. There are countless jobs that are considered community service, and deciding what to volunteer time towards would be a debate. If community service hours were a requirement to graduate at my school, I would donate my time to these three services.

America is the country built on freedom, you should get a choice if you want to volunteer, not to be forced. It would take away the purpose of its value. People volunteer to do community service to help others in need, or to help themselves. As stated in the second essay, "Mandatory service would turn generosity into obligation and goes against constitutional rights." It would take all the meaning away from it. Community service wasnt meant for people to get paid, for doing it. That's

Community service in our society is starting to get a diminished appeal because it doesn't sound fun. Teenagers don't understand what they are doing for other people and our focused on the entertaining aspect of it. When it shouldn't be about that. It should be about helping people, but we are too concerned with ourselves. Required community service would some people good because it would teach them how to do it, but in a way it might ruin the purpose of it. This is because community service and service in general should be about the greater good, not because you are forced to do it to graduate. The point is that society has changed loads since the Counterculture Movement, in the sixties, but attitudes for this are still not the greatest.

For some students, service is seen as nothing more than a grade, as something that has no purpose beyond college applications. The lack of visible results may sometimes give the impression that no changes are being made, but community service is one of the most important building blocks of our country. We have to look at each other when nobody else will lend a

Washington-Lee High School successfully operated a no requirement volunteer system and were able to help their community (Bahrampour, 78). This only proves that systems with no mandated service can work, but makes no claims on if they are more efficient or if mandated systems are not beneficial. This case study proves volunteer work can have positive effects, effects that can be multiplied under a mandated system. “Two studies suggest that community service requirements can have negative effects on students’ intentions to volunteer freely in the future but only when students feel they aren’t ready to volunteer or that the requirement is too controlling” (Stukas, Mark, Clary, 78-79). These studies do not present sufficient reason to not mandate civil service, as this lack of future was easily mitigated when the system was applied with student freedom, even in students who were not ready to volunteer. A system applied poorly will have poor results, but that is not a reason not to use the system. Arguments against mandating civil service fail to provide sufficient warrant to prove their

It’s one thing to have chores when a certain task is assigned on a certain day, such as, washing dishes, or cleaning the restroom. We are often told by our parents to clean our bedrooms, take the trash out, do the laundry, or mow the lawn, are just a few examples. These tasks are another form of homework. Work that is essential in order to maintain a clean, safe, and presentable environment. Inevitably, these are chores that need to be done on a daily basis, and cannot be ignored. However, volunteering is someone who contributes time to helping others with no expectation of pay or any other material benefits. But, this does not mean that volunteer work doesn’t come with any gain, benefit, or knowledge for the volunteer. For adolescents, those who volunteer or engage in civic participation develop positive results in mental health and well-being than those that don’t participate in volunteer work.

Most students just don’t feel the need to volunteer in the community. Some feel they need more study time, and others just want more recreational time. They don’t realize the benefits of working for their local community. Since Eggers experienced this first hand, he knows that a college or university needs to require its students to have a certain number of community service hours before graduating in order to have the students gain the benefits from service-learning. A university cannot simply expect its student to seek out the work themselves; the students need some form of motivation.

Nowadays, it is very difficult to get a job without a College Diploma. Our ever-increasing demands on student’s academic performances have insured well-educated adults, but what we have failed to focus on is the vital component of volunteerism as an integral part of rearing well-rounded adults. College students should be required to complete a year of community service/volunteer work before they can graduate, in order to create mature and caring adults and versatile future leaders. By mandating all College students across the United States of America to add another year to their studies and use this year for community service/volunteer work only, we will be able to increase their knowledge of community need, civic responsibility, and allow