Here is a pro of community service work. The people who are working do not get paid for work, and for them, "the rewards you reap will be more emotional and perhaps spiritual rather than financial" (Roland, Livestrong, 2019). At least the people who did the work will feel better at the end like they did something good. Anyway, another pro of community service is that a "number of research studies have shown that volunteering, particularly by older adults, provides health benefits" (Roland, Livestrong, 2019), which can helps make bodies burn calories and be more healthy in general. In conclusion, those are some pros of doing community service.
Now here are some cons of doing community service. "Teens are often busy" (Hagensen, The Classroom, 2019), meaning they do not have a lot of free time. Teens are busy with school, work, or athletics and activities they participate in. Secondly, another big disadvantage with service work for no pay is that the person may work with "someone who makes him feel uncomfortable or unsafe" (Hagensen, The Classroom, 2019). Overall, those are some big disadvantages with communuity service.
Here is where I feel about community service. First off, I am not a fan of it in general. I think it can interfere with our lives, especially our free time. Plus, the people who work do not even get paid for the work, so there is no reason in doing the work if there is no reward or the work does not help life in general get anywhere. Finally, I am not really a person who socializes or spends time with other people outside of school and I think it involves too much socialization and working with others.
Do you think 2 hours a week of community service would impact your life? What if, instead of wasting time playing video games each week, you spent time volunteering? Sometimes the pleasure you get from knowing you helped out is enough of a reward. Community service isn't always socializing with others. There are things you could do in a library, maybe stocking shelves, that do not require any socialization.
ReplyDeleteA reward you could get in return from doing service hours is people's respect. Your helping clean up places that were once clean before and look much better than they did before it was ruined.
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