Some people think placing advertisements in schools is a great resource for public schools that need additional funding, but others think it exploits children by treating them as a captive audience for corporate sponsors.
Choose which position you most agree with and discuss why you chose that position. Support your point of view with details from your own experiences, observations or reading.
School commercialism has come under immense scrutiny and criticism over the past few decades. Some may argue that it is fair for public schools to collaborate with advertising companies and benefactors as an alternate stream of raising revenue to offset budget cuts by the governments. It can also be argued, since children are exposed to advertising all the time including in the home-front, one more commercial at schools or on the school bus would not make a difference. On the contrary, recent studies have successfully argued that it is in fact more harmful than previously thought towards the well-being of a growing child.
In my opinion, such advertising creates bias within the young mind of a child. Rather than nurturing these children to be creative and to have strategic thinking, it creates followers. Not only does advertising in schools expose kids to marketing of harmful products, it teaches students that everything is for sale. Research has shown that children who are exposed to excessive advertising face negative repercussions to their health, self-esteem, values, body-image, learning processes and personal development.
Similarly, marketing undermines critical thinking and derails public education's most important mission of helping children become active, thinking participants in a democratic society. Schools can either educate students to become good citizens or train them to become passive consumers. They cannot do both.
Yes, kids are exposed to advertising all the time, but schools should not endorse and add to the constant marketing messages in their lives which may be detrimental to their development towards becoming a whole individual.
In conclusion, at the outset, these schemes would have seemed like a good idea initially. But in the end, it is apparent they benefit only the agencies, while harming students and leaving school with little to show for their efforts.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'if', 'may', 'similarly', 'so', 'well', 'while', 'in conclusion', 'in fact', 'in my opinion', 'on the contrary']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.247734138973 0.247107183377 100% => OK
Verbs: 0.163141993958 0.155533422707 105% => OK
Adjectives: 0.102719033233 0.0946595960268 109% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0422960725076 0.0501214627716 84% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0422960725076 0.0437548338989 97% => OK
Prepositions: 0.114803625378 0.122226691241 94% => OK
Participles: 0.0634441087613 0.0403226058552 157% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.11371409827 2.80594681477 111% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0422960725076 0.0326793684256 129% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00163938923432 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0725075528701 0.0861772015684 84% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.02416918429 0.021408717616 113% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00604229607251 0.011925033212 51% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1929.0 1933.35771543 100% => OK
No of words: 296.0 316.048096192 94% => OK
Chars per words: 6.51689189189 6.12580529183 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14784890444 4.20517956788 99% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.445945945946 0.374742101984 119% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.368243243243 0.28420135186 130% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.25 0.203846283523 123% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.168918918919 0.137316102897 123% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.11371409827 2.80594681477 111% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 176.037074148 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.614864864865 0.56093040696 110% => OK
Word variations: 69.383874862 60.7387585426 114% => OK
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0891783567 75% => OK
Sentence length: 24.6666666667 20.7743622355 119% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.1656010143 49.517814964 132% => OK
Chars per sentence: 160.75 127.492653851 126% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.6666666667 20.7743622355 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.0 0.814263465372 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38877755511 114% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 3.99599198397 100% => OK
Readability: 61.490990991 49.1944974215 125% => OK
Elegance: 1.71951219512 1.69124875643 102% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.151376555552 0.332605444948 46% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.080755349546 0.102741220458 79% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0458638525365 0.0668466124924 69% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.610875183885 0.534860350844 114% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.203289209955 0.148594505496 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0668114277237 0.134430193775 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0507091479129 0.0742795772207 68% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.207712741708 0.324371583561 64% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0764940095669 0.0638462369009 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0925029402072 0.228012699653 41% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.024264272613 0.058150111329 42% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.68436873747 58% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.41683366733 0% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 4.0 5.90881763527 68% => OK
Negative topic words: 6.0 2.5751503006 233% => OK
Neutral topic words: 0.0 1.9629258517 0% => More neutral topic words wanted.
Total topic words: 10.0 10.4468937876 96% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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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.