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 claim. In devoting and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
An opinion which has been garnering increasing amounts of support recently is that schools should do more to prepare students for non-academic aspects of adulthood. I firmly agree with this sentiment for the following reasons. One, it is a school’s duty to prepare students for the next phase of their life. Also, it would benefit society greatly to have more savvy adults.
Students being better equipped to handle the burdens of adult life would create less of a tax burden on the government. If schools were to provide training in things like personal finance, it would reduce the amount of people who make poor financial decisions and require government aid to survive. Young adults would be less likely to go into debt and become a burden on society.
Not all students plan to go to college after high school, so they should be fully equipped to handle adult responsibilities like personal finances, nutrition, cooking, and so much more. Imagine an 18 year old girl whose parents pass away as soon as she graduates. Because she is technically an adult she now has to manage every aspect of her own life, and without proper training, will likely make many poor choices. Neglecting to equip students fully is setting them up for failure and subsequently a neglect of a school’s duty.
One might argue that they didn’t receive this training and turned out just fine, but that logic is deeply flawed. This reasoning has no basis in statistical fact and only appeals to the fact that there are multiple possible outcomes.
Another possible argument is that college will equip students further. Well, as indicated previously, not every student will attend college. Furthermore, these basic, fundamental skills are easily acievable with a high-school education. Delaying the process has no benefit and only serves to push the responsibility aside.
There are multiple views to the idea of training students for more adult responsibilities in high school. I think it is clear that the pro’s outweigh the cons. It is savy to equip students and equip them early to achieve a more stable society.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, if, so, well, as to, i think
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 33.0505617978 79% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 58.6224719101 68% => 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: 1767.0 2235.4752809 79% => OK
No of words: 349.0 442.535393258 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.06303724928 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32221490584 4.55969084622 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.678578933 2.79657885939 96% => OK
Unique words: 208.0 215.323595506 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.595988538682 0.4932671777 121% => OK
syllable_count: 546.3 704.065955056 78% => 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: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.38483146067 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.3328840553 60.3974514979 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.35 118.986275619 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.45 23.4991977007 74% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.6 5.21951772744 50% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.215458197804 0.243740707755 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0622875255701 0.0831039109588 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0808377844474 0.0758088955206 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.108547933391 0.150359130593 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.103224984022 0.0667264976115 155% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 14.1392134831 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 48.8420337079 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.77 12.1639044944 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.42 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 100.480337079 87% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.8971910112 63% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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