Unpaid community service is manatory for high school I currently study English for IELTS test. Please help me. Question: Some people believe that unpaid community sevice should be a compulsory part of high school programmes (for example working for a charity, improving the neighbourhood or teaching sports to younger children). To what extent do you agree or disagree? My Answer: In recent time, several people say that it should be a mandatory sourse of study in the high school doing volunteer activities for the community. I strongly agree that there is no doubt that voluteer activities have variety of benefits for high school students. Taking an unpaid community service as a compulsory course might have a side-effect as followed. If there is a requirement for the volunteer activities for the students, they might become passive. This is not an original intention for the volunteer activity. In case of Korean students, there are a lot of students who need qualifications do volunteer activity passively all the time. However, unpaid community service has beneficial effects on students. First of all, students might be able to take the opportunity for developing their own talents which are not possible to do in the school such as improving there foreign languige skills, playing musical instruments and so on. For example, they would try to develop their skill to play musical instruments when if they give a music performance in front of elder people who do not have family. Secondly, the students might deal with stress with breaking their daily routine. They spend almost of their time to prepare the test or studying. I think it is very helpful to think creatively for the students because they can keep away from the boring routine in their daily life. For the reasons mentioned above, I totally agree with the opinion for taking the volunteer activity as a essential curriculum for the high school because it has several beneficial effects on dealing with stress and developing their own talents.