Some people hold the view that unpaid community service should become mandatory in high school curriculum. From my perspective, unpaid community service does good to high school students.
To begin with, community service involvements offer precious opportunities for students to learn more practical knowledge about society. Life at high school is isolated from the society because merely theories are taught in schools and students lack real-life experience. Engagements in different kinds of community service enables high school students to have work experience and enrich resumes, which will further improve their personal career development. For example, as job markets today are extremely competitive, if high school students have done some community service, they could add those experience into their resumes and talk about those experience in interviews to increase competency in finding jobs.
Community service will not only be beneficial for personal developments but will also cultivate students’ social awareness and the sense of identity as citizens. For instance, teaching sports to younger children will make high school students realize their responsibility and make them feel connected to the local community. Participating in community activities allows students to be trained in different ways. For instance, when students do charity fundraising, they will practice and improve presentation techniques, collaboration skills, project planning skills, etc. As these skills are essential for maintaining a long-lasting community and training potential problems solvers and leaders.
In conclusion, unpaid community service will bring benefits to students include enriching their practical experience, cultivating social awareness, and boosting the social bonds. Therefore, unpaid community service ought to be included as a part in high school education.