Some people think that secondary school children should study international news as one of the school subjects. Other people think that it is a waste of valuable school time. What do you think? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge and experience
According to some people, secondary school children should be aware of international news and for this purpose, it should be added to their curriculum. While this may enhance students’ knowledge of current affairs, I feel it is politically dangerous and severely damaging for the mental growth of school students.
To start with, the young minds will simply digest and assimilate any information fed to them and hence the news feed that arrives to a classroom has to be authentic and truthful. If schools are not careful about choosing an unbiased source of news and information, it may affect children’s perspectives. For instance, if a child grows up watching FOXNEWS, then he/she will be influenced and thereby inclined towards right-wing political party.
Furthermore, the education system in the modern society is intended to enlighten and inspire the youngsters to set and achieve positive goals in life. However, the majority of the news broadcasted on popular channels are predominantly negative in nature. Hence the expression “if it bleeds, it leads”. For example, a teenager will learn more about natural disasters, epidemic, riots, famine etc. happening worldwide than positive aspects of life like scientific inventions, sports or inspirational stories. Such news will only intimidate them and educate them about negative affairs rather than inspiring them to do well in life.
To conclude, the international news is inappropriate information for a child’s consumption given the political biasness and harsh reality covered in those. Hence, I wholeheartedly support the current curriculum for school pupils.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, moreover, so, thus, well, for instance, in conclusion, such as, first of all, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 41.998997996 81% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1488.0 1615.20841683 92% => OK
No of words: 288.0 315.596192385 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.16666666667 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11953428781 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85800802598 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 176.041082164 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.559027777778 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 444.6 506.74238477 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => 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: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.8574382596 49.4020404114 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.461538462 106.682146367 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1538461538 20.7667163134 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.69230769231 7.06120827912 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 0.0 8.67935871743 0% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 3.9879759519 251% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.234529691768 0.244688304435 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0968010938201 0.084324248473 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0788513867182 0.0667982634062 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.170097208638 0.151304729494 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0710141580707 0.056905535591 125% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 13.0946893788 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 50.2224549098 115% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.4159519038 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.4 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 78.4519038076 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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