Volunteer hours

There are different options on the topic of whether students need volunteer hours in order to graduate. There are both good and bad things that come with this requirement.

According to mlive.com they believe that when people who volunteer when social interaction is most important in their life, they will carry that with them through out their lives and pass it on so more and more people will realize that volunteering is important, even if they do not realize it. Also by making students volunteer for a certain amount of hours, they will learn why it is so good for them to give back to the community.

There are also negative things that come with requiring volunteer hours. According to silverchips.mbhs.edu, they say that making students volunteer takes away from the meaning/ experience of the whole thing. They believe that of schools make students volunteer it is unfair, also that volunteering should not come from fear of not being able to graduate, but it should come from the students wanting to help out the community. Even though schools think that they are doing the right thing it just puts stress on the students.