High schools should require all of their students to play a musical instrument.
High schools should not require all of their students to play a musical instrument. Their good intentions of using music to enhance brain function can be done through other activities. There is no one size fits all activity that will benefit everybody. The purpose of high school is to guide and not to prescribe, so high schools should refrain from trying to require something that has so far been an extracurricular activity.
Though studies show that music enhances brain function, there are plenty of other activities that do the same thing. Music has Mozart and Einstein, but chess also has its share of great minds such as Paul Morphy and Garry Kasparov. Sports has Muhammed Ali. The list of activities goes on and on, and there are studies for each of them that boast of their enhancements of brain function. Why have music as a requirement when there are so many activities that do the same thing? One should allow the students to choose for themselves.
It's commonly accepted that people have several different ways of learning. Some people learn visually, while others are auditory learners. Altogether there are at least six different learning styles. If something as simple as how the brain processes information can have so much variation, then how can anyone say that a certain activity (which requires several parts of the brain) can be beneficial for everybody, or even the majority of people? There's a saying that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. If music rails against some people's learning style, the requirement may well backfire.
Finally, the purpose of high school has traditionally been to guide the student into the track that he or she will take in college or in a career. This purpose has support in the greater freedom that students have in choosing high school courses compared to choosing middle school courses. To require music would be a prescriptive measure, and would be wholly against the freedom and infrastructure in place at high schools to ensure that students can explore and find their place in this world.
High schools should not attempt to prescribe an activity such as music for enhancing brain function. The activities that are right for a student depend on the characteristics of that student, and high schools should stick with their purpose of guiding the student to discover him or herself.
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- In the last 10 years, the number of patrons to the local library has decreased by a factor of 5, while during that time the number of purchases of electronic books has increased by a factor of 10. The director of the library believes that the cause of the 68
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Use simply 'several'.
Suggestion: several
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: There's
...rybody, or even the majority of people? Theres a saying that the road to hell is paved...
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Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to middle'
Suggestion: to middle
...igh school courses compared to choosing middle school courses. To require music would ...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'finally', 'if', 'may', 'so', 'then', 'well', 'while', 'at least', 'such as']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.253488372093 0.240241500013 106% => OK
Verbs: 0.167441860465 0.157235817809 106% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0790697674419 0.0880659088768 90% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0441860465116 0.0497285424764 89% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0302325581395 0.0444667217837 68% => OK
Prepositions: 0.123255813953 0.12292977631 100% => OK
Participles: 0.0395348837209 0.0406280797675 97% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.61915315876 2.79330140395 94% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0302325581395 0.030933414821 98% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => More particles wanted.
Determiners: 0.0860465116279 0.0997080785238 86% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0348837209302 0.0249443105267 140% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0232558139535 0.0148568991511 157% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2363.0 2732.02544248 86% => OK
No of words: 396.0 452.878318584 87% => OK
Chars per words: 5.96717171717 6.0361032391 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46091344257 4.58838876751 97% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.353535353535 0.366273622748 97% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.270202020202 0.280924506359 96% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.169191919192 0.200843997647 84% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.103535353535 0.132149295362 78% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61915315876 2.79330140395 94% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 219.290929204 91% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.505050505051 0.48968727796 103% => OK
Word variations: 55.3119891204 55.4138127331 100% => OK
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6194690265 102% => OK
Sentence length: 18.8571428571 23.380412469 81% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.6477900045 59.4972553346 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.523809524 141.124799967 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.8571428571 23.380412469 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.52380952381 0.674092028746 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.21349557522 58% => OK
Readability: 45.8773448773 51.4728631049 89% => OK
Elegance: 1.72115384615 1.64882698954 104% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.319914933188 0.391690518653 82% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0768719481173 0.123202303941 62% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0728249096941 0.077325440228 94% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.479843648194 0.547984918172 88% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.186121484023 0.149214159877 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.121616281068 0.161403998019 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.19506801232 0.0892212321368 219% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.260308057774 0.385218514788 68% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0438461226231 0.0692045440612 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.222856852974 0.275328986314 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.170542551805 0.0653680567796 261% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.4325221239 96% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.30420353982 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.88274336283 205% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 10.0 7.22455752212 138% => OK
Negative topic words: 0.0 3.66592920354 0% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 9.0 2.70907079646 332% => OK
Total topic words: 19.0 13.5995575221 140% => OK
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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