Schools should focus on academic success and passing examinations. Skills such as cookery, dressmaking and woodworking should not be taught at school as it is better to learn these from family.
To what extent do you agree with this view?
Some people believe that academic success and passing examinations are more important for children to focus on at school, other skills, such as cookery, dressmaking and woodworking, can be learned at home by their families. Personally, this statement cannot convince me well due to some specific reasons.
First and foremost, the basic reason that makes parents allow their children to come to school is to help them educate their kids. It is a fact that parents, these days, are too busy to deal with their childen's study themselves, so they send their kids to places which are called schools to do that. Therefore, if the education systems cannot educate well those students, they should review their primary functions when establishing those systems. This can be seen from the cases of students who have parents working at high positions in companies, including the chief executive officers, they can be good at several professional fields; however, it does not mean that they will have time to teach their children, even the smallest lessons.
Additionally, the school will be a place that assists students prepare for their future paths and this is its primary function. If they just educate academic courses and focus on examinations only, they will hardly ensure that their children are prepared well for the future. This is because those academic courses will not be completely useful and appropriate for students, except people who want to work in those jobs. Furthermore, cookery and other classes do not only fit those who intend to work professionally, but also fit those that do not have desire to go deeply into those fields. Since, these classes are practical and useful in their ways. For instance, when a student goes to study abroad, it is a big plus for him to know how to make food and to repair old clothes themselves, instead of spending money on having someone do for him.
In summary, I firmly disagree with the idea that schools should only pay attention to academic subjects and examinations rather than having practical courses, consisting of cookery and woodworking, in their schedules. These courses will have children in some specific situations in the later-on lives and also help parents to put more efforts on their works.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, so, therefore, well, for instance, in summary, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 7.30460921844 205% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 52.0 24.0651302605 216% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 43.0 41.998997996 102% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1885.0 1615.20841683 117% => OK
No of words: 374.0 315.596192385 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.04010695187 5.12529762239 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3976220399 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59616305861 2.80592935109 93% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 176.041082164 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.545454545455 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 574.2 506.74238477 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 5.43587174349 239% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 20.2975951904 128% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 56.9115407399 49.4020404114 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.642857143 106.682146367 126% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.7142857143 20.7667163134 129% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 7.06120827912 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.209295350326 0.244688304435 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0756442574112 0.084324248473 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0663731281192 0.0667982634062 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.147694632513 0.151304729494 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0508703136051 0.056905535591 89% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 13.0946893788 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 50.2224549098 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.25 12.4159519038 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.13 8.58950901804 95% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 78.4519038076 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 9.78957915832 138% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.1190380762 123% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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