Service Learning Service Learning by Kevin McNulty He who eats the fruit should at least plant the seed. Young people engage in community service all the time through their boy or girl scout troop, 4-H group, or church youth group. But teacher Chuck Holloway has initiated a service program that operates within the public school system. Community service programs engage students in activities which serve the community in a real way.
Examples are canned food drives, a school recycling program, or a community beautification program.
That means the community gets over four thousand hours of service, and the kids get valuable philanthropic experience. As he explained this idea, he recollected his days of volunteering when he acquired his taste for the altruistic. I know what I'm doing. But eventually they come around to Chuck's way of thinking and make the discoveries he predicts. The results are encouraging.