What is volunteering? What is the point of community service? It is giving back to your community, of course. We live in a country where in some cases, education is free, food is free, parks are free, transportation is free, and other services are also free. From where and how are all these complimentary attractions provided? From volunteering, of course. Students helping out their community truly learn a lot about reality. They learn responsibility and how it really is out there in the real world. It is a complete new experience for a student. Teens can learn about other cultures, races, hierarchal classes, and the situations of the less fortunate. This experience will allow them to be more open minded and more educated and understand countless ways of being helpful and benevolent to others who need help. Some high schools have taken the right step into making community service mandatory.
Although the extracurricular may add an extra burden on teens or make them feel like they are being forced to doing work, which will eventually lead them to lose interest, volunteering has many positives. If a student is doing the right work and volunteering at the right place which is a place of their choice, they will not feel like they are being forced. It will also be an activity they look forward to going to attending and will not be as burdensome. Community service may have its ups and downs but at the end, volunteering truly benefits a student, not to mention, the more volunteer hours, the better it looks on one's college resume.
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