We can see in news or newspapers many people do volunteer work such as making books in Braille for a blind person, keeping company with the aged and caring for disabled people, and so on. As we see their doing volunteer work, we can feel that they are feeling great pleasure and worth of volunteering while they are doing volunteer work. But why do I not have good memory about volunteer work although I have done volunteer work for 13years? I think that's because volunteering I did was mandatory volunteering. Mandatory volunteering can reduce quality of volunteer work and cause negative recognition about volunteer work.
First, mandatory volunteering reduce quality of volunteering. For example, recently, a students who was doing a mandatory volunteering in an assisted living facility was rude to a senior and snigger her with his friends who recorded a video at that moment. And it was uploaded on the online and this case caused a big ramification in Korea whether mandatory volunteering have to keep proceeding or not. This is a typical case which indicates negative effect of mandatory volunteering. if students don't want to do that and do by force of someone or school , mandatory volunteering can cause so many serious negative effects although intention of school is what students to go out into the community and feel a rewarding and fulfilling as doing a mandatory volunteering.
Bigger demerit of mandatory volunteer work than reducing quality of volunteer work is mandatory volunteering can make students think that volunteer work is annoying and boring work. As we already know, spontaneity is very important in volunteer work. In case of mandatory volunteering, however, spontaneous characteristic of volunteer work is broken. Therefore students may do passive volunteer work only for filling required hours as they are annoyed and bored because they can’t feel any fulfilling and rewarding or a sense of achievement of volunteering during doing mandatory volunteering.
Mandatory volunteering has many negative effects. It can reduce quality of volunteer work and make students think volunteer work as worthless task. Of course, volunteer work in adolescent period has positive effects on society because it makes students learn cooperative spirit, sociality. However, when volunteer work has not spontaneous characteristic but mandatory characteristic, its positive effect will be reduced and we will can’t find its real worth. Therefore, in my opinion, we should offer opportunity to student to make a choice of volunteer work by themselves and school should not force students to do the mandatory volunteering that they don't want.