Some people believe that sport is an essential part of school life for children while others feel it should be purely optional Discuss these opposing views and give your own opinion

The debate over whether to make sports part of school curricula has been raging for the past several decades. In my opinion, I believe that although there are some difficulties in making sports a part of school life, overall such activities should be mandatory for several reasons.

A growing body of reasearch suggests that sports generally bring various positives to young children, both physically and mentally. To begin with, sports can strengthen children's muscles and enhance their stamina, which promotes mental stability and helps their studying process considerably. In Finland, for instance, students are encouraged to enroll in sports clubs with a view to strengthening individual capacity for certain stressful circumstances like sitting for a final examination. Although such physical and mental health benefits gained from sports are hard to measure, it can be argued that sports can contribute greatly to the overall well-being of children.

However, many claim that sports seem to pale into insignificance when compared to traditional subjects like science and literature, thus the obligation is unjustified. It is because employers usually expect their potential candidates to be competent at logical thinking and decision-making rather than being physically attractive, which we can see in gigantic corporations like Google. Also, when sports are obligatory, educational funding will be shared amongst the subjects, leading to a shortage of adequate facilities in some. That means although sports can be beneficial, such drawbacks can affect some schools' financial securiry and their students' ability to prepare for future jobs.

In conclusion, while sports can benefit children through improving their physical and mental health, they can also take financial support from other important subjects. In my view, however, I personally think children should be obliged to play sports for their overall well-being, provided that schools regulate efficiently their funding and balance the stress put on different subjects.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 10, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun claim seems to be countable; consider using: 'many claims'.
Suggestion: many claims
...all well-being of children. However, many claim that sports seem to pale into insignifi...
^^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, so, then, thus, well, while, for instance, in conclusion, in my opinion, in my view, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 24.0651302605 87% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 41.998997996 93% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1741.0 1615.20841683 108% => OK
No of words: 304.0 315.596192385 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.72697368421 5.12529762239 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17559525986 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89584122175 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 176.041082164 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.625 0.561755894193 111% => OK
syllable_count: 519.3 506.74238477 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => 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: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 31.0146694682 49.4020404114 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 145.083333333 106.682146367 136% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.3333333333 20.7667163134 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.1666666667 7.06120827912 144% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.248397747917 0.244688304435 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100961914196 0.084324248473 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.065754986887 0.0667982634062 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.170173465019 0.151304729494 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0546153943923 0.056905535591 96% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.2 13.0946893788 139% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 50.2224549098 75% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.3001002004 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.25 12.4159519038 131% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.33 8.58950901804 120% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 78.4519038076 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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Note: 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.

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 10, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun claim seems to be countable; consider using: 'many claims'.
Suggestion: many claims
...all well-being of children. However, many claim that sports seem to pale into insignifi...
^^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, so, then, thus, well, while, for instance, in conclusion, in my opinion, in my view, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 24.0651302605 87% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 41.998997996 93% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1741.0 1615.20841683 108% => OK
No of words: 304.0 315.596192385 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.72697368421 5.12529762239 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17559525986 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89584122175 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 176.041082164 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.625 0.561755894193 111% => OK
syllable_count: 519.3 506.74238477 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => 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: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 31.0146694682 49.4020404114 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 145.083333333 106.682146367 136% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.3333333333 20.7667163134 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.1666666667 7.06120827912 144% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.248397747917 0.244688304435 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100961914196 0.084324248473 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.065754986887 0.0667982634062 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.170173465019 0.151304729494 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0546153943923 0.056905535591 96% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.2 13.0946893788 139% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 50.2224549098 75% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.3001002004 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.25 12.4159519038 131% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.33 8.58950901804 120% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 78.4519038076 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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Note: 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.