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human
CMV: Mandatory volunteering should not be required for high school graduation

In my country, high school graduation requires students to volunteer their time to non-profit organizations in order to graduate, in addition to course requirements.

I don't believe that this should be the case.

This is because there is NO benefit that mandatory volunteering provides for a student that optional volunteering wouldn't.

It actually introduces problems like: eating away at a student's study time if they're having trouble with their courses, clashing with a possible part-time job to make ends meet, or simply clashing with students' free time to relax, etc.
gpt
>This is because there is NO benefit that mandatory volunteering provides for a student that optional volunteering wouldn't.

But if it's optional, a lot of students wouldn't do it and would not gain nor give the benefits of volunteering.