New data released earlier this month put Texas near the bottom of the list of states with the best high school volunteerism and activism rates.
The Stratford High School Girls Soccer Team makes bags filled with toiletries and snacks to be distributed to the homeless during The Big Day on April 2, 2022. The data comes fromand looks at the share of former students who are members of certain groups on Facebook.
While this trend could be partly due to calculating rates – since one student’s action from a smaller school makes a bigger difference to the percentage – these schools have also worked hard to foster the idea of civic engagement. Stratford’s motto, “Stratford, America”, represents their commitment to being involved citizens, says Principal Raymorris Barnes. “Part of that mission is also believing that our students have a civic responsibility to better their community.”
Students from Stratford High School repaint the hardtop at a local feeder elementary school basketball court during The Big Day on April 2, 2022.Volunteering and community improvement can be part of service requirements built into school curricula, but administrators find it just as important to empower the students to lead their own projects as well.
Jennifer Chase, a social studies teacher for 10 years at HSPVA who focuses on many of these initiatives, says her students over the years have only felt the need to get more involved. Mandy Stein, a former student of Emery/Weiner “fell in love with the idea of service,” Dow said. In 2011, she volunteered at an orphanage in Tanzania while a student at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2012 she founded Neema International, a nonprofit that provides education, healthcare and other basic needs for over 250 children as well as jobs for nearly 50 adults in the country. Now, every summer, Emery/Weiner students go to Tanzania to volunteer with her organization.
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