Volunteering Requirement Analysis

Volunteering Requirement Have High School students really been devoting enough hard work in the years they’ve been in school or should they require even more work to accomplish in order to graduate? In the article “Volunteering to Graduate: Do We Need More Requirements?” By Miriam Dodge, she talks about how volunteering hours is being required in some high schools in order to complete your high school requirements, but might be a requirement that shouldn’t be enforced. High school students should not have to deal with volunteering hours as a requirement for graduation because it is not a main focus for every student and can might cause graduation an impossible thing. In the article it says “negates the spirit of volunteering itself.” With this it causes students to feel like it’s almost a “bad” thing because they see it as a job that has to be done instead of actually learning how to give back to the community because you desire to do it. Volunteering would come off as “forced work” to students as well as mandatory everyday work. When students have so much going on it’s almost impossible to keep up with community service and other activities going on in their life. Another quote from the article says, “This does not teach students the true …show more content…
Volunteering should be encouraged but not to the point where it becomes a stressful thing. For example nobody would want to donate the little time they have due to school, work, babysitting, etc so why should there more work to add on? Not much good comes out of it if one is being forced into doing something they don’t want to do in the first place. Many would rush all other work just because of the amount of work they are