Can You Force Volunteerism?

Gregg listed some of the downsides he sees to forcing kids to volunteer, some of which are “significant inefficiencies and wasted resources”; a reinforcement of “the idea that volunteering is negative, or at least ‘not good,’” which could lead children to grow up to “affiliate volunteering with a mandatory requirement of their teenage years”; creating barriers to other volunteers; and perhaps allowing adults to “take themselves ‘off the hook’ because they think that volunteer problems are being met.”