New data put Texas near the bottom of the list of states with the best high school...
Students from Lutheran High School of San Antonio volunteer at the Hill Country Daily Bread, a food pantry that serves the Texas Hill Country in May 2022.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 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 how rates are calculated – since one student’s action from a smaller school makes a bigger difference to the percentage – these schools have also worked hard to encourage civic engagement. “We want kids to go out and be looking for ways to serve rather than looking for ways to be served,” Eickstead said, “And it changes your whole culture.”