...service of others.”. In the ___ time of high school, teenagers are given an opportunity to develop their own set of morals and values, learn about their future, and foster their own sense of the world. This personal development is especially grown from community service. Thus, it is essential to implement mandatory community service programs as a high school requirement for graduation. Through the offering of mandatory community service, students can not only experience personal enrichment and development of a moral center, they benefit their own community, in an expert from The Dalton School's Community Service Mission (75). In my own high school, Fossil Ridge High...
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...In high schools, Volunteering is a necessity for graduation. But these requirements can add stress to a lot of students and can mess with the student’s life outside of school. Volunteering should not be a requirement for graduating high school. Paragraph 1: Schools have any things that students need to do before moving on, but volunteering shouldn’t be one of them. With all the activities that students must do or choose to do already, there won’t be time for the community service required by the school. Furthermore, Volunteer work is supposed to make people feel better about the world and should consist of people who choose to help their community, not those who are forced to for school or ones with insane schedules. Students should not have...
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...Community service should be required in order to graduate high school. Community service helps an application look professional when an employer sees the work experience that a student has. To begin, Donna St. George, journalist for The Washington Post states “Many people were more likely to work in professional and business management due to volunteering as an adolescent.” This is important because it shows the impact that community service has on the type of work an individual continues with, which helps with getting and keeping a job. Also, the article “Even When It’s Mandatory, Volunteering Is Good For Kids” states, volunteering is good for many students because it gives them work experience, and it is good for their future careers, and community service helps inspire them to find an interest he or she likes. To end, Alina Tugend a journalist for The New York Times states, “Students who volunteered were more likely to contribute the community and to vote when they came of age”. This is important because it is showing the relationship between those who volunteered and those who didn’t. Those who volunteered were much more likely to engage with the community and continue to help. Therefore, community service is good for students because it helps with finding a place of work and feeling good about it. Secondly, community service allows students to use skills they learn in the classroom beyond the classroom, such as responsibility, organization, or problem-solving. Kelly Vaughn...
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...Volunteering students makes for better people Paula Kehoe College communication skills – CMM110-32 Professor Rhett Andrew Wednesday, October, 3, 2012 Volunteering students makes for better people Outline Thesis Forcing students to volunteer teaches them to be overall better people. Controlling Ideas 1. Communication skills. 2. Teaches the student responsibility. 3. It can build character: raise self-esteem and personal development. Body paragraph: Volunteering for a high school student can be stressful at times. It can also do a lot of good though, by using up some free time high school students seem to have. High school students getting pregnant and in trouble with the law are outstanding compared to those on the honour roll. By getting the student to communicate with more people broadens their horizons. Having them see there is more in this giant world then just the name brand pants they have on, and the accomplishment of working hard to be able to buy the nice things in life. Having students volunteer teaches them the responsibility of the real world. They have a duty to fulfill, accountability, and people now depend on them. If something came up like a test they may need to study, they need to call the boss to plan for someone else to take their shift. The student may have the responsibility to open or close the store for daily operations, to follow the daily cleaning instructions or maybe just stock shelves. If these responsibilities are not met by...
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...joy for serving others. By compelling service the joy diminishes alongside the morality of serving. Some people argue government should not be involved with volunteer work at all. Doug Bandow states, “We need service, not national service.” Legislature should analyze whether or not government should be involved with the responsibilities of individuals regarding service. While government provides many benefits to those who choose to serve, suck as extra funding to high schools, the overall intent would not benefit young adults in America. Source F illustrates how young adults are less likely to volunteer after being forced to in high school. While volunteering could reduce the amount of participation of intolerable behavior in young adults for the time being, the overall correlation would not be long term. In conclusion, volunteering may benefit a person for a short amount of time; the legislature would have to consider whether the program would efficiently carry out its purpose before establishing volunteering as...
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...I have completed over 100 hours of volunteering in my local community. I have been involved in various fundraising events such as the Coachella Valley Stroke and Heart Walk and Walk to End Alzheimer's. I have also been involved in the Melanoma Awareness Project of the Desert and have volunteered various of times at Sacred Heart Church. I have assisted at a Pet Adoption Fair and have assisted my local neighborhood by mowing lawns and walking pets occasionally during my summer break. I firmly believe it is important to always give back to your community because the feeling you get is rewarding. I plan to be apart of whichever community I live in since it is the least thing I can do. I will continue volunteering and being an active member of my...
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...opportunities to help instead of them being asked to help. Many times throughout high school I shown my leadership by volunteering to help others without being asked or expecting something in return. For example, this year I have volunteered for “Blessing in a Backpack” program at my school. This is a funded program that that sends out food packages for less fortunate students at my school. For this program I have the role of helping sort the food packages and I also making sure they are being delivered to the right place in time. I have to be precise to make sure every kid gets the right amount of food and that whoever is delivering the food gives it to the right classroom. For many students without this program they wouldn’t eat full meals on the weekends so it is very important they receive their...
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...teacher at Inter-Lakes High School is dedicated to volunteering. Having been born into voluntary work, volunteering comes naturally, and when she engages in community service, she finds that “people's random acts of kindness and doing...
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...I am seeking to transfer to William and Mary because since I have decided I was going to take school seriously I have aimed at attending William and Mary. I had always have had a respect for the ocean and ever since I was a child I had had dreamed of becoming a marine biologist. During my time in high school, I had not fully applied myself and did not make the grades to go to college right away. I have attempted to really make up for this by becoming active in the academic and scientific community. I have found a new appreciation for learning and really have discovered a passion for pursing knowledge. I started really applying myself in school, and I even began seeking to gain hands on expiernece outside of the class room. The first semester...
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...Hi! My name's Becca Moore and I recently graduated from high school in June 2015. Continuously second guessing myself on what my post secondary education should be, I decided not to decide! I instead decided to take a year off and travel to Africa to volunteer in a health centre through a program called Lattitude Global Volunteering. On January 1st, 2016, I will be loading my plane to start my 6 month volunteering journey to Malawi, Africa (which is a tiny country surrounded by Zambia, Tanzania, and Mozambique). Although I'm not sure where in Malawi I will be living yet, I do know that I will be volunteering in some sort of rural health centre. There, I could be assisting with the running of the centre, the basic pharmacy, administration for...
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...Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING Background of the Study In any given classroom and school activity of relatively extended duration and complexity, students’ engagement is never homogeneously high and productive, but rather it fluctuates depending on a number of factors (Mcwayne et al., 2012; Mattingly et al., 2013) such as parental involvement (Ho & Williams, 2008; McNeal, 2009; Jose et al., 2010;). Students engage better in school when parents play a positive role in their learning process (Jackson, 2010; 2011; Green et al., 2012). Students are more likely to make a personal commitment to engage in rigorous learning when they know parents care about how well they do (Kilgore, Snyder & Lentz, 2008; Keyes, 2010). However, despite the crucial role of parents, studies in relation to their involvement remain scarce. Students’ low engagement with academic activities is considered the main reason for dissatisfaction (Kuh, 2009), negative experience, and dropping out of school (Linnenbrink&Pintrich, 2009; Jimmerson, Campos & Greif, 2010). One of the contributory factors is the level of parents’ positive interference to the academic journey of the school (Brookmeyer, Fanti&Henrich, 2008). More significantly, most findings show positive relationship between parental involvement and students’ engagement in school and in the classroom (Dauber & Epstein, 2008; Gorard, Rees &Fevre, 2009;Cotton, 2011;Fantuzzo et al., 2012). Nevertheless, the understanding...
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...It was the summer before my eighth grade year, and the last place I wanted to be was at my church’s vacation bible school. I was scheduled to make confirmation in the coming fall. One of the requirements was to volunteer, and I asked myself: “Why do I have to volunteer? How is this going to help me with confirmation? Isn’t this just a waste of time?” But, I did it because I had too. So, I spent a week of that summer acting as a crew leader for a group of kindergarten students at the summer program. Guess what? It was one of the best weeks of my summer and truly impacted my future direction. I never expected volunteer work could be so meaningful. I knew I wanted to continue on helping others. The next summer I returned and volunteered...
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...I do not agree that students should be required to volunteer in their communities to receive their high school diplomas. I have many reasons to why I don't agree with this requirement.The first one is students may have to work everyday after school, the second one is they could be disabled and not be able to do it, and the third one is being forced to volunteer isn't really volunteering. Some students may have to work every day after school so therefore they can’t volunteer in their community. For example, I work almost everyday after school so that wouldn’t give me time to volunteer in my community.Some students may like to volunteer in their community but i think if you want to volunteer that they should make a club for students who only...
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...My grandmother would tell me, “The key to life is Be the change you want to see”. Her wise words guided me to be the leader I am today. My goal has been to bring people together and encourage inclusivity. In my journey to impact my community, I served as an ambassador for the National Society of High School Scholars (NSHSS) and coached for the community track and field team, which helped me see the truth in my grandmother’s aphorism. I was selected by NSHSS to represent the society in my high school, to be a role model among my peers, and to inspired them to get involved in community activities. It has been an amazing honor to be a member and leader of an outstanding, prestigious organization. My first goal as an ambassador was to members together....
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...In fact, volunteering at an elementary was not easy at all. Through the experience of volunteering there, the teachers and staff are always on task taking care of the children and assessing them to learn and behave. There were several tasks teachers faced due to the fact that they are there to assist children to receive an education. It was exciting to work with the children and setting an example for the future generations. Furthermore, volunteering in a library help students realize how imperative to pick up a book is. Reading is like food for the brain. It is unbelievable knowing how many books the library has to offer and how much of a hassle it is to organize books back in their place. Lastly, a personal preference would be volunteering at a church since the church will always be in the need of...
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