These days, more and more young people are choosing to study in other countries

Do you agree or disagree?



General topic: community service.
Controlling issue: should youngsters be forced to take part in it?
Position: yes, despite some drawbacks, it is a good idea.


Drawbacks:
Working for free-demotivating teenagers-reducing productivity and boosting rebellious intentions-making service useless and creating difficulties for older volunteers.
Youngsters attending lessons/extra-curricular activities-enjoying free time-no time for compulsory service.


More significant benefits:
Volunteering-fostering self-confodence/fulfillment-learning various skills of communication/cooperation.
Improving the neighborhood/infrastructure[without any funding].
Community service may be very beneficial from both personal and social perspectives; therefore, some feel that it should be a compulsory part of high school programmes. Despite some initial challenges this proposal has, I am a strong advocate of its introduction.


Primarily, this practice might be problematic for several reasons. For a start, free community service is likely to demotivate young people, minimizing their productivity and maximizing their rebellious intentions. This, in turn, can not only make their invovement totally useless but also create difficulties for older volunteers. Moreover, high school students do not have any time for taking part in such kind of programmes. On top of attending everyday lessons and extra-curricular activities, they usually have a little spare time which should be spent on leisure-time activities and enjoyment. Thus, this type of service may not appeal to both teenagers and elder volunteer workers.


Nevertheless, this kind of programmes can eventually be of immense help for both the individual youngster and their community as a whole. From a personal perspective, even though young people may not like taking part in unpaid community service at first, volunteering can, in effect, boost their self-confidence, self-esteem, and fulfillment. As well as these positive feelings, a wide cluster of real-world skills such as communication, organisation, cooperation and team work often stem from the experience of working for nothing from teenage years. On the societal level, this type of community programmes has potential to improve the infrastructure and neighbourhood-without any spendings, more importantly. The sooner this kind of service becomes mandatory for all teenagers, the greater benefits both youngsters and society will reap.


In conclusion, although forcing young people to do free community service might cause several problems initially, its personal and social benefits can be derived at the end of the day. Because of this, I support this type of programmes.