Schools are a critical component of any functioning society. Good schools provide a safe learning environment for children and help them develop the skills required to become functioning members of our society. Looking at the property prices in neighborhoods with good schools, it can be deduced that most parents would consider the quality of the school their children attend to be important. Based on the aforementioned reasons, it can be tempting to mandate volunteer time for all parents in their children’s schools. However, doing so will be short sighted and may lead to various challenges.
Consider a poor neighborhood where parents are working multiple jobs just to afford basic necessities. Parents in such neighborhoods will likely be working long hours, often running ten or twelve hour shifts, which drains all of their energy. They may also have various obligations which severely limits the amount of time available for volunteering. Additionally, these parents might be working in jobs that may not have flexible hours or paid time off. Asking parents in such situations to volunteer may lead to loss of pay or exhaustion which severely effects the parent’s health and their children’s development.
Another important thing to consider would be the reduction in quality of the tasks being performed. When people are forced into doing things, it leads to apathy and a tendency to cut corners. A clear example of this can be seen across engineering schools in India. Many parents, with good intentions, forced their children into engineering majors for undergraduate study. However, doing so led to students that were apathetic to the courses being taught and frequently did not complete the required assignments. Forcing parents to volunteer will lead to similar apathy at schools which can be detrimental to the quality of the schools.
Finally, there may not be enough tasks available for all the parents who have to volunteer at a school. Consider any school which has over five thousand students. This would mean there are over five thousand volunteers and there may not be enough tasks to engage all the volunteers. However, since volunteer time is mandated, this may lead to multiple people being assigned to complete tasks that could have been done by a single person or may lead to a lot of idle time. This brings down the overall efficiency of the schools system and it hijacks valuable time from parents.
Volunteering at their children’s school can be an incredibly rewarding experience for many parents. Doing so may introduce them to many challenges faced by teachers and lets them appreciate the effort required to discipline and educate children. However, by looking at the above consequences it is clear that making it mandatory for all parents will lead to more harm than good.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 85, Rule ID: BASIC_FUNDAMENTALS[1]
Message: Use simply 'necessities'.
Suggestion: necessities
...re working multiple jobs just to afford basic necessities. Parents in such neighborhoods will lik...
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Line 7, column 520, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'schools'' or 'school's'?
Suggestion: schools'; school's
...ings down the overall efficiency of the schools system and it hijacks valuable time fro...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, however, if, look, may, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 23.0 12.4196629213 185% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 33.0505617978 82% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 58.6224719101 106% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2387.0 2235.4752809 107% => OK
No of words: 457.0 442.535393258 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.22319474836 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62358717085 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87239947083 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 222.0 215.323595506 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.485776805252 0.4932671777 98% => OK
syllable_count: 710.1 704.065955056 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.2250517409 60.3974514979 57% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 99.4583333333 118.986275619 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0416666667 23.4991977007 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.70833333333 5.21951772744 33% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.282270929236 0.243740707755 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0912388763288 0.0831039109588 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0652032138386 0.0758088955206 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.176587993261 0.150359130593 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0441028566876 0.0667264976115 66% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 14.1392134831 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.8420337079 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.1639044944 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.21 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 100.480337079 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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