This isn't a question but here is my essay on if school should have community hours or not. Read it and tell me what you think,
please.
Many schools in the US are requiring students to do volunteer hours, so they can graduate. Volunteering is good, but not when you are being forced to do so. You should volunteer because that is something you want to do. Not because you need it to graduate. Schools should not require students to earn volunteer hours in order to earn their diplomas because students should volunteer because they want to, forcing stents can demotivate them, and students should not be forced to work for free.
Making students volunteer has them doing it for the wrong reason and defeats the purpose of volunteering. Source 3 states, doing community services is something the students should choose to do. Not because they need the hours to graduate. “Community service is supposed to be something you want to do," Reyhner said. As Reyhber said, community services should be something you want to do. As well as doing community services because you are essentially being forced to do. Students are not volunteering for the right reasons and it defeats the whole purpose of it in the first place. Source 2 says, “Having students volunteer their time is hardly a new idea. If given the time to freely pursue our own interests, surely, many of us would still volunteer. Still, doing good can't be force-fed.” To sum it up, students should not be forced to volunteer because it ruins then the whole purpose in the first place and makes them volunteer for the wrong reasons.
Forcing students to do community hours could demotivate them and make them never want to do it again. Source 2 demonstrates that forcing students to do volunteer hours can demotivate them, and might even make them lose interest completely. “As attractive as it may seem, service-learning isn't the most effective way of prompting students to become civic-minded. When volunteering becomes mandatory, students can lose the motivation that sparks pure voluntary service.” When you force students to volunteer they lose their interest, and all the motivation to volunteer in the first place. If students volunteer, it should come from the heart. If not then they will lose all motivation too. In addition to demotivating forcing volunteer hours could make students, the government is completely ruining the point of volunteering by making students volunteer. This is because volunteering should be something you want to do. According to source 1, "Most people have an intuitive sense that it is good," Bullock said. "But by cramming it down their throats by government edict you are really polluting and corrupting the whole spirit of volunteerism.” In conclusion, forcing students to do volunteer hours to graduate can demotivate them, and volunteer for the wrong reasons.
Another reason why schools should ban community service hours is that the government is getting free service from students. In source 1, it explains students are required to do community service hours, the government is getting students to work for them without payment. According to Fuller, students should not be made to do community services and instead spend more time on improving grades. On another hand, In source 4 the writer explains that students can learn better social skills from volunteering. “Meeting people and having fun are also good reasons to volunteer.” In summary, volunteer hours can have their benefits but the government should not be using students to get free services in order for them to graduate.
To sum it all up, schools should not require students to earn volunteer hours in order to earn their diploma because students should volunteer because they want to, forcing students to demotivate them, and students should not be forced to work for free. Community services should be something students choose to do, it is their choice if they want to volunteer or not. If community service becomes mandatory in every school students will not enjoy going to school or volunteering as much as they would have if there were not forced to do so.
