About volunteer work Some high schools have a requirement that students must complete a certain amount of volunteer work in order to graduate. What do you think about this type of requirement? In some high schools it's compulsory for students to do volunteer work. In my opinion, this is a useful teaching method. Firstly, volunteering kids can learn something that cannot be taught through books or class lessons. When you volunteer, you can come across a huge variety of situations. This way students learn how to deal with each of them and that what they live and do is not the only way to live and do things. Secondly, kids learn to actually act concretely, when it comes to issues they care about. It can be to protect the environment, it can be against povetry or inequality. This way students learn an important life lesson, which is that they can really help and make an impact in the society they live in -and why not, in the world-. People can argue that making volunteer work compulsory is against its very nature. I don't agree if this is about a certain amount of volunteer work. I think it's useful, instead, in order to show students that it's a possibility. Moreover, I believe that when you have the possibility to experience what volunteer work feels like, you just want to find ways to help more. In conclusion, in my view, making students volunteer for a while is beneficial for them, because they have the chance to experience what big of an impact they can make.