“Schools should be responsible not only for teaching academic skills but also for teaching ethical and social values
Schools, especially in a pluralistic nation such as the United States, should limit what they teach to academic subjects—leaving it to parents and clergy to teach ethics. To do otherwise, as the statement suggests, is to invite trouble, as this essay will show.
If our schools are to teach values, the most important question to answer is: Whose values would they teach? After all, not all ethical values are the same. The Amish have a way of life that stresses simplicity and austerity; they shun modern conveniences and even such activities as dancing. By contrast, the typical young, urban family enjoys buying the latest electronic gadgets and going on expensive vacations. Either group might be offended by the values of the other.
True, Amish and urban children aren’t likely to attend the same schools; but what about children from Jewish and fundamentalist Christian households? These two religious groups may live in the same town or neighborhood, and either one might very well be incensed if the other group’s moral teachings were imposed on them.
The only way to avoid the inevitable conflicts that teaching ethics would bring to our schools is by allowing teachers to focus on what they’re paid to do: teach academics. We send children to school to learn math, English, history, and science. How would we feel if our kids came home ignorant about geometry but indoctrinated with someone else’s religious or ethical ideas? Justly annoyed, I think.
Moreover, consider that schoolchildren in the United States lag behind those in most other nations in academic achievement. In light of this fact, it would seem foolish for us to divert classroom time from teaching academics to teaching “morality.”
Ironically, what is most ethical for our schools to do in the interest of educating our children is to avoid becoming entangled in ethical issues. Stick to academics, and let families and clergy teach morality in their own way and on their own time
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, may, moreover, so, well, after all, i think, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 19.5258426966 51% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 11.3162921348 35% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 33.0505617978 76% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 58.6224719101 78% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 12.9106741573 31% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1684.0 2235.4752809 75% => OK
No of words: 324.0 442.535393258 73% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.1975308642 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24264068712 4.55969084622 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94049480163 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 215.323595506 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.604938271605 0.4932671777 123% => OK
syllable_count: 502.2 704.065955056 71% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.2370786517 79% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.8019325351 60.3974514979 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.25 118.986275619 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.25 23.4991977007 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.8125 5.21951772744 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.334766743454 0.243740707755 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0884745364151 0.0831039109588 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0918444754836 0.0758088955206 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.161188934968 0.150359130593 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0442517758045 0.0667264976115 66% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.1392134831 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.88 12.1639044944 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.82 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 100.480337079 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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