Community service is an altruistic activity of adding one individual’s effort to those who are in desperate need, without compulsion. The two main concepts of true community service are, firstly sincerity; whether a person conducting service has sincere desire to provide assistance to any group of people on need in particular places. Secondly, whether a person is willing to serve others for nothing. At most schools, students should perform community services for certain hours as compulsory graduation requirement. Some say since these activities are progressed compulsorily, such activities are not genuine and don't benefit anyone. However, I believe that students can take advantage from doing such mandatory social service because the service itself is part of life learning that how we are benefitted from our community and how we are able to return it back to our society.
To start with, school is not only an educational institution that provide the opportunities of gaining knowledge, but also the institution where students can learn to be part of our society. Given this, community service is one of the way worth taking compulsorily. It helps young learners have hands on experience and learn about how people deal with such complex life. The socializing process is one important role that school as an educational institution should provide the students with. By participating social service programs, contacting with all different kinds of people in our community, and learning to solve problems, students can have personal benefit. The programs will help the young participants to be more reliable, compassionate, and well-organized. Theses are important factors for promoting personal growth and self esteem as young students and by extension it will provide them with chances of testing ourselves, especially in their career related experiences.
Additionally, and most of all, the young learn to think about the entire community as a whole. When they work for their communities with the notion that they are improving someone’s life in our community, can see the direct influence on others, making their community a better place. If the school does not make students to serve for others, they might never try to volunteer because they have never learned to do so or never been informed about it. Even if the beginning would be hard, once the students can serve at least once, they can find themselves able to help others and that it is a rewarding and worthy activity to do. This realization can lead students to perform services willingly with better self images. Those who even started the service even if the school asked to do so initially will participate it with such better reasons as “To help our community.” or “To save local resources.” and so on. This shows that if students improve their sense of belonging and responsibility, they will be able to learn about the truest sense of community services they have done through variety of experiences.
In conclusion, I believe that school’s purpose of requiring students to go through a specific amount of community services is to let students learn the real meaning of what volunteering is and the need of volunteering. I suppose these purposes are the benefits which the article brings to students therefore, I agree to the idea that students gain merits from mandatory services. The coercion of volunteering is a tool to give students a chance to realize that the service itself is part of life learning that how we are benefitted from our community and how we are able to return it back to our society.
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