TPO-28 - Independent Writing Task Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Parents today are more involved in their children’s education than were parents in the past.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

What an important aspect of human beings' lives which plays a prominent role in their prosperities, to a great extent, is education. Although there is a consequence on its indisputable role, the most efficient method of educating students is still a moot point. Germane to this fact, a question which is the matter of debate, a controversial one, is whether parents today are more involved in their children's education than were in the past. Whereas some people may be on the belief that they are still indispensable for education of their children, I am personally of the conviction that parents' responsibilities are dwindled for two conspicuous reasons.

One compelling reason giving in favor of this thesis is that schools have different policies from the past. To elucidate more on this issue, the government has enacted new policies on schools' schedules. These policies pave the way for schools to play a more important role in the students' education. For instance, last week, I read in the newspaper that the government has implemented policy changes in the programs of school, which include changes of class times, number of teachers, and so forth. According to the new changes, schools are now open from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., which is two hours more than the past. Consequently, students will spend a longer time in schools, and schools, in turn, will have more effect on their education. As you can see, the government's policies have decreased the role of parents in their children's education.

Another reason which cannot go unnoticed is that the increase in the numbers of different subjects taught in schools, decreases the efficiency of parents helps. To shed some light on this premise, it is worth pointing out that many different topics, nowadays, are taught in schools. Nevertheless, parents are not expert in all of them, and they cannot, hence, be beneficial to their children in learning the topics. For example, my son is ten years old, and he told me that he has many different classes in school, i.e. mathematics, literature, biology, etc. Furthermore, he has a class for learning the piano. One cannot turn a blind eye on the fact that nobody has good knowledge on all of these areas. Thus, I am not able to assist him in learning them. This experience taught me that since there are many lessons that children learn in schools, parents are not capable of assisting them with them.

By way of conclusion, I am personally one of the proponents who cites a clear bias in favor of the thesis that parents are no more involved in their children's education as much as they were in the past. To recapitulate the reasons, not only are they hampered by implemented policy changes, but also their lack of knowledge in all the covered topics in schools is a restrictive factor.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 281, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
...ls to play a more important role in the students education. For instance, last week, I r...
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Line 5, column 228, Rule ID: NUMEROUS_DIFFERENT[1]
Message: Use simply 'many'.
Suggestion: many
... premise, it is worth pointing out that many different topics, nowadays, are taught in schools...
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Line 5, column 482, Rule ID: NUMEROUS_DIFFERENT[1]
Message: Use simply 'many'.
Suggestion: many
...n years old, and he told me that he has many different classes in school, i.e. mathematics, li...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'consequently', 'furthermore', 'hence', 'if', 'may', 'nevertheless', 'so', 'still', 'thus', 'whereas', 'for example', 'for instance', 'to a great extent']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.248148148148 0.229887763892 108% => OK
Verbs: 0.137037037037 0.158761421928 86% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0722222222222 0.0866891130778 83% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0462962962963 0.046263068375 100% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0555555555556 0.0685040099705 81% => OK
Prepositions: 0.144444444444 0.118717715034 122% => OK
Participles: 0.0333333333333 0.0351676179071 95% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.79805551793 2.67179642975 105% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0185185185185 0.0309702414327 60% => OK
Particles: 0.00185185185185 0.00188951952338 98% => OK
Determiners: 0.0981481481481 0.0887237588012 111% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.012962962963 0.0209618222197 62% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0148148148148 0.0139019557991 107% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2792.0 2387.08602151 117% => OK
No of words: 475.0 408.028673835 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.87789473684 5.86048508987 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.66845742379 4.48200974243 104% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.338947368421 0.338922669872 100% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.269473684211 0.251872472559 107% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.2 0.174417080927 115% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.128421052632 0.112833075102 114% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79805551793 2.67179642975 105% => OK
Unique words: 230.0 212.727598566 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.484210526316 0.524397521467 92% => OK
Word variations: 55.4026213113 59.2087087015 94% => OK
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6684587814 106% => OK
Sentence length: 21.5909090909 20.5533526081 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.4204858615 48.84282405 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.909090909 120.699889404 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5909090909 20.5533526081 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.681818181818 0.644075263715 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.5376344086 88% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.54480286738 54% => OK
Readability: 48.538277512 45.7405998639 106% => OK
Elegance: 1.78294573643 1.45489161554 123% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.338039973869 0.300154397459 113% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.110007772087 0.103427244359 106% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0587855848459 0.0752933317313 78% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.492182683952 0.497263757937 99% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.154999916323 0.151897553556 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.137044279587 0.114077575197 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.086096063845 0.0781384742642 110% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.443585151941 0.336927656856 132% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.018472128011 0.067059652881 28% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.264446438799 0.210909579961 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0283973082705 0.0618886996521 46% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8870967742 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.86379928315 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.91756272401 183% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 8.0 8.42114695341 95% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 2.4623655914 122% => OK
Neutral topic words: 8.0 2.75985663082 290% => OK
Total topic words: 19.0 13.6433691756 139% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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