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Writing 3 - Mandatory Volunteering

Mandatory volunteering in schools can have negative consequences and undermine the spirit of volunteering. It risks creating resentment in students and a negative association with community service. If volunteering is required rather than a personal choice, students may lose motivation to volunteer in the future. It also ignores that many students have other commitments outside of school and making volunteering mandatory could overburden them. Overall, mandatory volunteering does not respect that volunteering is best when undertaken voluntarily with willingness and time that students choose to dedicate.

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Writing 3 - Mandatory Volunteering

Mandatory volunteering in schools can have negative consequences and undermine the spirit of volunteering. It risks creating resentment in students and a negative association with community service. If volunteering is required rather than a personal choice, students may lose motivation to volunteer in the future. It also ignores that many students have other commitments outside of school and making volunteering mandatory could overburden them. Overall, mandatory volunteering does not respect that volunteering is best when undertaken voluntarily with willingness and time that students choose to dedicate.

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Writing 3 - Mandatory volunteering

How do you feel if you’re required to do?

A well know phrase of Elizabeth Andrew says “volunteers don't necessarily have the time;
they just have the heart.” It is the real meaning of volunteering; however, most of schools
apply mandatory volunteering as a requirement for many students. As a result they make of
volunteering something annoying and losing the real meaning of volunteering. So, I strongly
believe that volunteering could not be mandatory, although many people believe and support
mandatory volunteering.

First, most of people believe that mandatory volunteering is helpful to encourage the social
and philanthropic awareness of students; although# they will intend to volunteer just for
academic purpose. Mandatory volunteering shows a wrong idea of what volunteering is.
Students should have the intention by themselves of helping others but not being forced to
do it because of an academic requirement.

Second, some people believe that students would not know about the benefits of
volunteering until they do a mandatory volunteering; however# they ignore that volunteering
is a personal choice and students may become resentful with volunteering in their future. A
bad volunteering experience will generate a bad quality on volunteering service causing more
harm than good in the community. Therefore, a bad volunteering experience will stop
students from volunteering again in the future. So, mandatory volunteering will create a
negative impression of community service for students. It will definitely be harmful to the
motivation of being a volunteer.

Finally, despite the fact that volunteering is better than just sitting around watching TV or
playing video games, students should not be required to do anything after school except
homework. Because many students have busy after-school schedules helping their families or
working, they do not have enough time to volunteer. Therefore, school starts and ends at set
time and any school-related activity after those times is extracurricular. Students today are
overwhelmed.

As you can see, volunteering service could not be mandatory. Mandatory volunteering can
have more drawbacks than benefits not only for the community but also for the future of
volunteering service. In addition, a bad experience can develop more problems because
volunteering is a personal decision that involves personal will, time, and devotion. So, is it
correct to think in volunteering service as something forced and mandatory?.

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