Volunteering Programs In High Schools

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.

High school administrations care about the well being of their students. They aim to guide the students in a way that will prepare them for the future ahead of each student. Thus administrations of high school have certain requirements that students must finish before graduating. There is one requirement that is commonly debated by high school administration and students, this topic being community service. Community service should not be required in order to graduate from high school since forcing students to volunteer leads to false information on their records, forcing students to do so does not mean that they will continue doing community service after they graduate, and it does not mean the student will mature.

After high school, I plan to continue by volunteering at events around the community and the college I will be attending at. I am going to participate and join clubs at the University of Washington that focus on community service and provide me opportunities to give back to the community. I think that community service is important in shaping an individual and it would not only benefit me, but I want to give back to the community gave me the opportunities I have now.

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

Students would learn a lot of new things from the people they are helping. Community service could show the students that they are worth something. They can see how much they can really do. Helping someone else could also help you and make you feel good about yourself. Even though community service is good, students should have a choice to do volunteer work. It should not be required, maybe it should be for extra credit. Students could just go do it in there own time, maybe in the summer time or on school breaks if its something they like to

When applying for a position at a job, managers always check to see how much experience you have in order to check if you are qualified. When filling out a college application there are always questions that ask to write down any extra curricular activities you participated in or any clubs/service work you did and for how long. It is important to be a part of the community and to be dedicated to one or two locations for a certain amount of time to show commitment and effort. A student that has been a part of an organization for about three months and has not missed will be prefered at a college than a student that goes five times a month. Community service does not only help build relationships but allows students to spend their time learning new skills and it will benefit them in the future. Community service for high school seniors should be mandatory because it will teach the students how to be responsible, allow them to explore in depth something related to their career and improve their communication skills.

The first reason students should not volunteer is because it defeats the purpose of volunteering. If students are forced to do something they are not going to put in as much effort as they would if they had decided to volunteer on their own. Volunteering is about helping people and if the students do not chose to volunteer they are not doing it because they want to help their community they are doing it because they have to to get their diploma. This is one reason volunteering should not be required to graduate.

Some people believe that requiring students to volunteer in order to receive their high school diploma defeats the purpose of volunteering. They believe that it would cheapen the work that the students are doing. They believe that the students would not put the required effort into the volunteer work. However, once the students start volunteering, they will forget that they are required to. The students will be proud and have a feeling of accomplishment in the work they are doing and put effort into volunteering in the community. Therefore, students should have to do volunteer work to receive their

There is a lot of time and dedication that goes into community service. Some students may say that it is a waste of time. Community service is very time-consuming. There are better things that can be done. Students will find other alternatives that will get them out of doing community service. The students will either join a club or play a sport. They would do anything to get them out of doing community service. Some students are not as social as others. They would rather be in their room alone than be out with others. Some students are not as social as others. Some students find joy in helping others. It warms their heart to help out where and when it is needed. Community service should not be required because it is taking away from their education, and adding more stress than they already

Around the age of 8, my parents inducted me into a C.C.E. program where I received 3 sacraments of the Catholic Church. During my last year before receiving Confirmation, we were all assigned to do volunteer hours in the church. It was either helping assist during mass or help assist C.C.E. instructors. Since I hadn’t taken alter server courses, I got stuck with being a teacher’s assist. I just wasn’t fond of the idea of being stuck in a room with younger children. All I could do was hope I was assigned to an older age group.

Do you think that students should be required to do volunteering to be able to graduate. Many people question this but some people agree that it should. Volunteering should not be required to graduate because it defeats the purpose of volunteering, people may not agree with what they have to volunteer for, and they may not have the time because of jobs or other things they have to do.

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).

Launched in 1994, The Mersey Forest is the UK’s largest community forest covering over 800 square miles of woodlands, green spaces, parks and street trees across Cheshire and Merseyside. With the work of several local authorities including The Forestry Commission, Natural England and the Environment Agency – along with help from landowners, business owners, local communities and a team of dedicated forest workers – the vision of transforming derelict land into high quality natural environments for recreational and cultural activities within 30 years became not only achievable but a reality (The Mersey forest, 2014a).

Volunteerism enables students to gain the moral lesson that is vital to their life and develop their future interest. According to source 2, “community service teaches us through experience - about the relationship between empathy and responsibility, about what it takes to be part of a community, in essence, about human being”. While students are helping their community, they learn the crucial moral lessons in the most direct and impressive way. Through an actual experience of volunteering, students are reminded that it is their responsibility to serve for their community because they are a part of it. Helping without any feedback allows them to realize the power of empathy, the essential value that makes the society a

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