Can't argue with that. I see the same thing.
My son goes to a local public high school, and it appears that school kids now have to do some form of 'volunteer' service in order to graduate and get their diploma, to the tune of 100 hours' worth of time at the local nursing homes, homeless shelter, cat shelter, what have you.
That sort of edict strikes me more as 'mandatory' than 'volunteer', but 'volunteer' sounds much nicer, I suppose.
I wonder: Are these hours being counted in these statistics? Because that constitutes a sizable chunk of free labor.
Yeah, kids in high school are now coerced to “volunteer”. The effect of this is creating conservatives, as the kids volunteering see about 10% of the people who actually need help, and 90% of the rest fat, lazy, and extremely rude, while wondering why they have to help people perfectly capable of helping themselves. It was an eye opening experience for them.