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 a
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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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work may help this
, a teenager should be given the flexibility to choose on
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she wants to do it. Doing extracurricular activities at school
, joining a paid internship program at a workplace, and participating a
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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.Submitted by madeananda.krisna on
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