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True, but it's still work that's usually volunteering work. So it's probably a good idea to call it volunteering so the kids associate it with that. It's to give kids a taste of what kind of work volunteers do so they might do it voluntarily in the future (like the kid in this post).
Personally I also didn't really mind it in school. I had to spend a few days at a thrift store and had lots of fun. They installed Ubuntu on their laptops, which was my first contact with Linux. I got to help customers with that. And one time we were moving a couch and accidentally hit a stand that wasn't attached properly. It fell over and almost hit a customer lol.
They only call it volunteering because they don't want to pay for the work.
Volunteering should be ... voluntary