Question

List two details from the article that support the argument for requiring one hundred hours of community service to graduate high school.
While the teenage volunteering rate has increased significantly over the last 30 years, teenagers continue to be primarily interested in episodic volunteering (contributing 99 or fewer hours a year). Today, 67.9 percent of teenagers are episodic volunteers.
Teenage volunteers are significantly more likely to serve with educational or youth service organizations today (34.7% in 2005 vs. 26.8% in 1989). In fact, volunteering with a religious organizations [sic] (30.3% in 2005 vs. 34.4% in 1989) was the most common place that teenagers volunteered in 1989 but it is now the second most popular place for teenager volunteering, behind educational organizations.

Answer 1

List two details from the article that support the argument for requiring one hundred hours of community service to graduate high school.

Detail 1.

Today, 67.9 percent of teenagers are episodic volunteers.

• This detail shows how volunteers want to specifically help, because episodic volunteers are more interested in specific actions, they want to see a result in short term tasks and that is what attracts them more. This particular way of volunteering is more appealing for students at that age, because they are full of energy and eager to accomplish these types of objectives.

Detail 2

Teenage volunteers are significantly more likely to serve with educational or youth service organizations today (34.7% in 2005 vs. 26.8% in 1989).

• This detail from the article supports this argument because it illustrates in what places students are more likely to volunteer. Those places in which students feel more active because they think they have more opportunities to see outcomes for immediate actions.