Mandatory volhnteering

Mandatory volunteering rule has been the reason for slow community development in the country. This policy applied on the high school students to spend a given amount of their time in offering free services to the community, has been received with mixed reactions from the students with most of them developing negative attitudes towards work. The evaluation of the issue can lead to the statement that paper mandatory volunteering is a practice that has resulted to more losses than gains.

The cost of forcing a student to volunteer is higher than the value that they add to the society at the time of volunteering. The adolescent age of the involved people coupled with the creation of attitudes at this stage predisposes the students to a rebellious reaction to this type of labor. They view it as an imposed aw that seeks to draw free labor from them that would have otherwise been paid for. The proponents of this policy argue that it instills the habits of responsibility and social morals. A deeper consideration of the damages caused by this regulation in the essence proves otherwise. The individuals who have undergone this exercise never wish to volunteer anywhere else again which lowers the gains that the society would have drawn from them when their expertise has in fact improved. The withdrawal from offering self to serve the society as an expert leads to necessity for the community to hire expensive experts that it could have sourced locally for free. This change of the attitude against free offering frees services by the locals becomes a drawback to the community and costly as well.

The community also looses the same virtue of responsibility in the members. The free volunteering is argued to instill a sense of responsibility to the students when this can be imparted on the students through many other ways such as class conduct and home instructions. The reason therefore becomes mere excuse used by those supporting mandatory volunteering to further their course.