All parents should be required to volunteer time to their children's schools.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compe

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All parents should be required to volunteer time to their children's schools.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.

In an ideal world, all parents would have the spare time to be able to volunteer at their children’s school. However, that is not the case given the wide range of parents’ requirements and other commitments. While it would be difficult to implement properly, this policy will have a positive effect on the community of a school. Requiring a minimal amount of volunteer work from parents can have many positive repercussions, such as aiding teachers, encouraging interaction between parents, and allowing teachers to observe any potential problems in the home.

Teaching is a taxing job that often requires work after hours and pays approximately $20,000 less than the U.S. median household income. Teachers are often underpaid and overworked for their time teaching future generations. Requiring a small amount of volunteer service from the parents of students will help to ease this load slightly. One possible implementation could require each parent to be responsible for grading another student’s work or purchasing supplies for in class activities. This would aid in alleviating the teacher of performing these mundane tasks throughout the school year.

Required volunteer work can also be spun in a positive light as to not appear as a chore to parents. If parents are encouraged to perform tasks together or volunteer in an environment where they would naturally have contact with each other, the chances of friendships forming between parents is significantly increased. Positive relationships between parents will set a good example for the students, who are especially impressionable at a younger age, and will also foster a community of support between parents.

Interactions by parents with students and other parents can give the teachers and administrators insight into any potential issues with a child’s parents that may interrupt their education. Students who have issues at home are magnitudes more likely to drop out of high school and not attend college. If a parent is required to volunteer with the school, the teacher will have more interactions with the parent in order to identify any potential issues and take action if necessary.

While arguments can be made that requiring service is impossible given the variety of parents’ working schedules, this policy will be effective if implemented correctly. This policy should not require parents to volunteer for specific events or limited events, as conflicts with work or other obligations will cause friction between the parents and faculty. A more productive and amiable approach allows parents to volunteer whenever they are able. Parents can volunteer during class directly helping students or after hours aiding the teacher with grading or creating assignments. If care is taken to ensure that parents of all occupations can participate, this policy can be an effective tool to bring parents, teachers, and students together.

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Average: 6.6 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, may, so, while, as to, such as

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.4196629213 169% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 33.0505617978 54% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 58.6224719101 102% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2498.0 2235.4752809 112% => OK
No of words: 456.0 442.535393258 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.47807017544 5.05705443957 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62105577807 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00230671423 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 223.0 215.323595506 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.489035087719 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 768.6 704.065955056 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.5169794448 60.3974514979 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.9 118.986275619 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8 23.4991977007 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.45 5.21951772744 47% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.19145956571 0.243740707755 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0719390679135 0.0831039109588 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0441079540818 0.0758088955206 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123894253303 0.150359130593 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0244912772154 0.0667264976115 37% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 14.1392134831 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 48.8420337079 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.1743820225 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.8 12.1639044944 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.95 8.38706741573 107% => OK
difficult_words: 122.0 100.480337079 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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