Schools should do more to prepare students for the non academic aspects of adulthood.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. 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.
The main purpose of education is to give children, teenagers, and young adults, the tools necessary to develop into fully functioning, independent adults. Mistaking purely academic pursuits as the only worthy form of education in forming boys into men, and girls into women, represents a major lack of judgement and values, and furthermore, fails to take a wholistic view of the problem. Without a doubt, schools should do more than they are presently to prepare their students for the non-academic aspects of adulthood.
Many “adults” graduate from high school or college without a clue on how to function and survive in the adult world. Because many young adults live with their parents until the age of 18, they lack first hand experience with many critical skills. This ineptitude could include the ability to cook pasta, balance a check book, make a budget, file your taxes, understanding how credit cards work. Furthermore, there could be residual bad habits that were taught to them by their parents, for which the child has never been exposed to any other way. Poor dental hygiene habits, could be passed from parent to child, with the child — read ill-adept future adult — being none the wiser. For this reason alone, it is critical that schools provided the much needed safety net to ensure the well being of future adults.
This type of education — teaching of critical “life skills” — is not that far outside the scope of what is currently taught in high school. Many high schools are mandated to provide physical education by the state. Likewise, a plurality of schools provide shop class— which has inspired many future carpenters, mechanics and plumbers to pursue the trades, and on the other end, sexual education — which has played a part in mitigating sexually transmitted diseases among teens, and reducing teenage pregnancy. Moreover, one could argue that these aforementioned “life skills” have a synergistic effect with academic pursuits. Shop class engages a different part of the brain, building visual-spacial competence for potential future engineers, sexual eduction, in preventing teen pregnancy graduates more students.
Graduating component adults should be absolutely paramount to every academic institution. Although non-academic pursuits might supplant their academic counterparts, striking a balance between the two will ensure that our society has adults that can draft a proper email to their boss, enjoy Shakespeare, fix their car, and balance their check book.
Discourse Markers used:
['first', 'furthermore', 'if', 'likewise', 'moreover', 'so', 'well']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.281720430108 0.240241500013 117% => OK
Verbs: 0.14623655914 0.157235817809 93% => OK
Adjectives: 0.103225806452 0.0880659088768 117% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0301075268817 0.0497285424764 61% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0279569892473 0.0444667217837 63% => OK
Prepositions: 0.103225806452 0.12292977631 84% => OK
Participles: 0.047311827957 0.0406280797675 116% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.79366903097 2.79330140395 100% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0301075268817 0.030933414821 97% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0795698924731 0.0997080785238 80% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0193548387097 0.0249443105267 78% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0172043010753 0.0148568991511 116% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2547.0 2732.02544248 93% => OK
No of words: 399.0 452.878318584 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.38345864662 6.0361032391 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46933824581 4.58838876751 97% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.416040100251 0.366273622748 114% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.31328320802 0.280924506359 112% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.218045112782 0.200843997647 109% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.145363408521 0.132149295362 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79366903097 2.79330140395 100% => OK
Unique words: 243.0 219.290929204 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.609022556391 0.48968727796 124% => OK
Word variations: 75.2831963894 55.4138127331 136% => OK
How many sentences: 16.0 20.6194690265 78% => OK
Sentence length: 24.9375 23.380412469 107% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.4531058778 59.4972553346 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 159.1875 141.124799967 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.9375 23.380412469 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.4375 0.674092028746 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.94800884956 81% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.21349557522 0% => OK
Readability: 56.265820802 51.4728631049 109% => OK
Elegance: 2.11578947368 1.64882698954 128% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.407420731934 0.391690518653 104% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0896390305193 0.123202303941 73% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0732183794454 0.077325440228 95% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.506851977487 0.547984918172 92% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.147922122333 0.149214159877 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.154527980267 0.161403998019 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0742496875065 0.0892212321368 83% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.248095914467 0.385218514788 64% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.107488651314 0.0692045440612 155% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.2621772466 0.275328986314 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0933592716976 0.0653680567796 143% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.4325221239 48% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.30420353982 132% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88274336283 82% => OK
Positive topic words: 4.0 7.22455752212 55% => OK
Negative topic words: 7.0 3.66592920354 191% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.70907079646 111% => OK
Total topic words: 14.0 13.5995575221 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Minimum three arguments wanted.
Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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Note: This is not the final score. The e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.