Volunteering Writing Prompt
Volunteering writing prompt
A lot of junior high schools and high schools around the country require students to have a certain number of hours each semester in volunteering around their community. They believe that it is a good idea because it promotes good citizenship and cultivate skills. I do agree that it helps students build character and it gets them volunteer hours, but I also believe that if you require someone to volunteer it’s not really volunteering. That sounds like forced volunteerism to me. But I also think that this can help a kid venture out of his or her comfort zone. The reason why I say that it forced volunteerism is because it kind of is. Let’s say that you set a minimum of 4 hours of volunteering is needed to pass your class and if a person doesn’t get those 4 hours, they fail. If you make someone volunteer they won’t have their heart in it. They will look at those 4 hours of required volunteer work as just another thing they have to get done. They will probably just do the bare minimum needed. Like if you tell a kid, he or she has to make a parade float for his community verses telling a kid that he can make a parade float if he/she wants. The kid that has a choice will more than likely put more effort into it than the kid that has to do it. However, in a topic like this I also say that is can help a kid have more options in his life. Right now I’m in an East …show more content…
This Eco Fest project in East can lead to good things in my life and open new doors, but that’s because I’m letting it. However, other kids might not feel the same way and that is where they might get a bad feeling towards volunteering. In the future those kids might feel weird about volunteering again because of the bad experience they had been forced to volunteer at school. That’s I personally feel that the kids should get the option but shouldn’t be forced to
A lot of junior high schools and high schools around the country require students to have a certain number of hours each semester in volunteering around their community. They believe that it is a good idea because it promotes good citizenship and cultivate skills. I do agree that it helps students build character and it gets them volunteer hours, but I also believe that if you require someone to volunteer it’s not really volunteering. That sounds like forced volunteerism to me. But I also think that this can help a kid venture out of his or her comfort zone. The reason why I say that it forced volunteerism is because it kind of is. Let’s say that you set a minimum of 4 hours of volunteering is needed to pass your class and if a person doesn’t get those 4 hours, they fail. If you make someone volunteer they won’t have their heart in it. They will look at those 4 hours of required volunteer work as just another thing they have to get done. They will probably just do the bare minimum needed. Like if you tell a kid, he or she has to make a parade float for his community verses telling a kid that he can make a parade float if he/she wants. The kid that has a choice will more than likely put more effort into it than the kid that has to do it. However, in a topic like this I also say that is can help a kid have more options in his life. Right now I’m in an East …show more content…
This Eco Fest project in East can lead to good things in my life and open new doors, but that’s because I’m letting it. However, other kids might not feel the same way and that is where they might get a bad feeling towards volunteering. In the future those kids might feel weird about volunteering again because of the bad experience they had been forced to volunteer at school. That’s I personally feel that the kids should get the option but shouldn’t be forced to