Volunteering In Schools

They see the teachable skills it provides, as Dodge listed, “... learn how to juggle responsibilities. The ability to multitask… the value of responsibility and discipline,” that this work allows students to learn. These lessons and skills may be learned by students as they participate in the work they’ve taken part in but do they really learn them fully? Though it may be true that students can learn valuable lessons from community service and volunteer work, the gain is almost fully lost when it becomes a necessity as it becomes more about getting the hours than putting in the work. “Many students don’t feel inspired by their time serving the community so much as irritated that they were forced to do so by the school system…” wrote Koenig. This states that because the work became a forced action, the students are more likely to brush it off than truly take in a reap the benefits of their work. When the work gets brushed off, it loses its value greatly and even almost completely. Just because students can gain from service, doesn’t mean that they will take the gains in and grow from the experience. In fact, students are more likely to benefit from things like community service when it’s their choice to

A wise person once said, “If you light a lamp for someone else, it will also brighten your path.” This particular quote has helped me realize that not enough teenagers are helping their community become a more desirable place to live. Implementing community service into the senior project outline as a requirement would ultimately benefit the students and the community. Not only will the students become more aware of the activities that occur in their community, but they will also have a greater sense of self.

School systems often require community service in order to graduate. However, students should be able to choose to volunteer or to not volunteer. This decision should not be made by another individual. The people should decide to help others for themselves. Schools force students to take part in community service, he or she will most likely gain nothing from the experience. The point in taking part of the activities is to help others while helping yourself. Although community service can be extremely valuable in the development of both character and academics, the negative effects of forcing students to participate by making such programs a graduation requirement offset the benefits.

The United States is a country of volunteers. In 2002-2003, 64 million Americans (28.8 percent of those 16 and older) donated 52 hours a year, the equivalent of more than one full work week, to building shelters, coaching Little League, caring for the elderly, teaching literacy, and countless other community-minded pursuits. Statistics show in Source F that “groups mandatory and nonvolunteers – were less likely to volunteer 8 years after high school than persons who strongly encouraged to volunteer or did it for strictly voluntary reason (43 percent).”

On average on 26% of Americans volunteer, this surprised me on how low this number truly was. I now understand why community service is required for most classes, because without us kids out volunteering the numbers would be substantially lower. This proves to be true by a study done by Debra Blum shows that hot spots for volunteer work is in college towns, such as Provo, Madison, Wisconsin and Iowa City, Iowa. To me this is pointing out that people that have higher education are more likely to give back to their communities. This can be explained with certain theories that will be broken down later in the essay along with other materials.

It would be a perfect world if every adult wanted to give back and be a volunteer. Realistically, thats not the case. If everybody was forced to, that would lessen the point of service. The reason why volunteering is such a great thing is because it isn`t mandatory. If people want to volunteer,they do it to help others. There isn`t a financial gain or a law requring them to do so. If their hearts aren`t in it, then

“ Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness” (Martin Luther King, Jr.); Volunteerism connects me by engaging and helping our society in which donating time and service can make a difference and a change in our society. Furthermore, it is every individual’s obligation to contribute in their community to set good examples as the righteous citizens that we are today; for instance, there are many ways that volunteering connects me and benefits me in my community, in which I grow in every aspect of my life, such as interpersonal, professional and bringing awareness in our community.

Discussing about volunteering to teenagers should be the first step for a better life, since teenagers are the future of tomorrow and they will leave a mark from yesterday. Volunteering has been such an important matter, that schools in many countries around the world established that 12th grade students will need certain hours of community service in order to graduate. But the frequent answers all the schools are getting are “Why do I need to volunteer? I have better things to do!” What people are forgetting is that each one of them is part of a community, a community that is not perfect and that the government sometimes forgets about their problems or needs, because obviously the government needs to take care of other things that require more attention. People are not only helping others, they are also helping themselves (Volunteering).

Volunteering is part of who I am. It’s my secret to living a joyful life. One of my most significant volunteer experiences is at a place called Adult Basic Education, where I have been volunteering for over three and a half years. ABE is a place where adults from various backgrounds, mostly those who speak little or no English, go to learn and improve their English skills. There are also some adults who go to ABE to prepare for the GED test, so that they can get a diploma. I volunteer as a level-one-teacher assistant, working in small groups and one on one with students at the beginner level to help them practice their speaking and pronunciation. I remember when I was 13 years old, my family and I moved to the U.S.A. from Cambodia and I did

“Volunteers are not paid; not because they are worthless, but because they are priceless.” - Sherry Anderson (Volunteering Quotes: Finest Quotes).Volunteering gives you an chance to work with new people who will change your lives. It gives you an joy to give back to the society. Volunteering is one way you can gain skills before you get an job or diploma. Most people nowadays have hard time finding a job because of no experience. This is where volunteering works in.Most people are unpaid for the work they do but for an college student it is one way to gain experiences and make new contacts while being in college. College students should do at least one year of volunteer work before the graduate as it will help them grow as an mature and understanding person. Skills that are gained by volunteer work would often help them later in life.This year I volunteer for Clarkson Community Center and it was a rewarding experience with them.

Volunteering makes teenagers more appreciative because it shows them what they do can have an impact on society. If teenagers feel like what they are doing is

Kids and teens in school these days are told to work hard to benefit their future. There’s so many options for colleges and careers. Sometimes it’s hard for students to get recognized by colleges even if there academics are amazing or you're a stellar athlete. These students are missing a piece, community service.

Is it a good idea that high school students involve in volunteering, but, High school students should not be required to spend three hours a week volunteering because they could use that time to work and become mature ,and also could be in extracurricular activities that could benefit.

Volunteer work. Those two words are dreaded by millions of people. Some associate it with unpaid, free labor; after all, it has the word “work” attached to it. Those that do “enjoy” volunteer work tend do see it as it being a resume filler or as compliment to their college application; they do not take too much out of the experience. Through the eyes of Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK), volunteering can be seen as so much more than dreaded labor or a resume buff- it can have an impact on the world. Moreover, volunteer work can be the change that fixes the inequalities in this world. On the surface, volunteering may not seem like it’s going to affect someone, much less change the the world. But even volunteering just an hour can impact the life coarse of someone. Specifically, volunteering at schools helps to solve the injustice in the segregated schooling system. Service learning has taught me that taking action is the only way to make change in order to fight inequalities. The only way we can improve the education system today, is if we take action by volunteering. ((Transition Sentence))

Nevertheless, the common misconception linked to graduating College students is that they are well-rounded adults, who have done their time and are ready and able to enter the working force and go on with their lives. The fact of the matter is that not all recent college students are mature and knowledgeable on their community and the world at large. “Teens who volunteer increase their knowledge of the world and the problems that face it” (“Youths”). This quote is not only applicable to teens, but college students as well; unfortunately, college students become isolated from the rest of the world while they are in their course of study and do not make time to give back to the community that helped them become who they are.