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There's a term for that, it's called being voluntold to do something.

I get volunteered for shit at work all the time.

Yeah hated this shit in school. What they don't tell you is when you unleash all the kids in the highschools at the same fucking time to get 40 hours of volunteer hours during the same couple months the opportunities for volunteering get severely limited. Worse if you're in a smaller city/town

I agree, but I still think they should call it that. For some kids, it'll build a passion for volunteer work and then they will choose to do it. If you call it something else then that might not happen as often.

Calm down Che Guevara. Better things to be upset about than getting kids involved in their local communities.

Had this at my school, if it is fun you don't get any of this thing we called it social hours,, it is basically just a way to get kids to work.

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.