As many of you know during high school students are forced to complete certain hours of community service to graduate. The question is that: Is this right?
Personally I feel that forced volunteering is wrong. What are your opinions and why?
2006-09-17 10:55:46 · 6 answers · asked by itscold12 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
As many of you know during high school students are forced to complete certain hours of community service to graduate. The question is that: Is this right?
Personally I feel that forced volunteering is wrong. What are your opinions and why?
I understand all of these comments below but all of them don't really answer what I'm asking. Everyone talks about the righteousness and benefits of community service but fails to answer the ethics in forcing students to do work whether or not they want to.
2006-09-17 16:26:45 · update #1
I think it's great that highschool students have to have the community service hours before graduating. It prepares them for the real world, shows them what its like to work, and can be very gratifying for them to be doing something to help someone. Here in Ontario they need 40 hours by grade 12, thats 10 hours a year, is it really so hard to do somethinf selfless for ten hours in a whole year? I think it teaches a lot about the world to these kids and there is no reason to think otherwise. Volunteering has never hurt anyone.
2006-09-17 10:59:48 · answer #1 · answered by Fade__Out 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you raise a rat in a perfectly square rat-house, with all its necessities at its disposal, with pictures of the 'outside' world pasted on each of the six surfaces of the box, would the rat survive the 'real world'? School is that box, the pictures are the education recieved in school- that is: you are only learning what society is by what you learn at school, home and TV. The only way to truely experience society is by working or volunteerng- where you are immersed in a different way of life- be you volunteering at an old-age home, hospital, shelter or whatever. You get to see, hear, feel and experience things which otherwise you'd be forced to neglect- if only the multi-billionaires had some exposure to the real world they would be less greedy and more generous with their surplus.
2006-09-17 18:13:52 · answer #2 · answered by canguroargentino 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Volunteering is certainly a very right thing to do. And forcing kids to help our world is also a right thing to do. Not everything should be done for money. I am a teenager and I volunteer on my own, nobody has to force me to do it. I would think that helping the less fortunate is a very good thing indeed.
2006-09-17 17:58:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I will be a high schooler next year and I dont feel like it's fair that it is put on the high school students. I think that all ages need to do a small amount of work. So that high schoolers dont have to do as much.
2006-09-17 17:58:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the first reason i do volunteering is because it is required, the second is because colleges look at my extracircular activities, then the last reason is better it makes you feel better in the end because you helped out someone or the community. overall, i do it to look good and it is required, but in the end it makes me feel better that i changed someone's life
2006-09-17 17:59:20 · answer #5 · answered by trulilazn 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with fade out above, you said it all. Your a smart girl.
2006-09-17 18:11:30 · answer #6 · answered by soulrenewer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋