Some people believe that teenagers should be required to do unpaid community work in their free time. This can benefit teenagers and the community as well. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Most adolescents in developing and developed countries attend high

school

education. Some argue that they should contribute to society by spending their leisure doing

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community

work and not getting any payment for

this

. To some extent, I disagree with

this

opinion. In the milestones of human development, adolescence is a unique period when one is not considered a child anymore but not yet seen and treated as an adult. A previous study on developmental psychology showed that it is when we acquire abstract thinking capability and

hence

start to realise our existence and purpose in life. With

this

, I argue that the time a teenager spent both in

school

and outside

school

should be focused on exploring his

/

her interests and developing skills that will be needed in the future.

Although

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community

work may help

this

, a teenager should be given the flexibility to choose

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how he

/

she wants to do it. Doing extracurricular activities at

school

, joining a paid internship program at a workplace, and participating

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certain competition of his

/

her choices are several of many examples of how an adolescent could spend his

/

her extra time productively.

In addition

, having a choice is something that teenagers value a lot as they

also

start to develop independence.

However

, the fact that some of these teenagers do not engage in

such

activities cannot be neglected. They may,

for example

, involve in a delinquent action. In

this

circumstance, obligatory

community

work would help them re-align their purposes while benefiting society. In conclusion, an unpaid

community

activity is not a bad thing, but a teenager should be able to decide for him

/

herself whether or not they want to spend their free time doing it.