All parents should be required to volunteer time to their children s schools

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All parents should be required to volunteer time to their children's schools.

The statement proposes to require the parents to spend some time in their ward’s schools. Parents and teachers play the most crucial role in a child’s upbringing. Undoubtedly, such a move would promote synergy between parents and teacher during a child’s education bearing multiple rewards. However, mandating all parents to volunteer in their ward’s school regardless of their background, availability and education might have its own consequences.

Admittedly, the recommendation for parents to volunteer time for their child’s school has manifold psychological advantages. Parents are a child’s first teacher and their lap is their first school where they learn their first words and early etiquettes. By the time, a child starts going school a deep mutual understanding and affection gets developed between it and its parents. Any developmental psychologists would agree that this bonding when exploited through author’s proposition in a child’s schooling, especially early years, would improve a child’s education process and render it a light hearted experience for them. In fact, a recent research in US schools revealed a 30 percent increment in academic performance when parents volunteered their time in school. Parents would me more involved in child’s education thus leaving a positive impression on a child’s psyche. They will get insights into school’s methodologies and curriculum. They will also have higher sensitivity of their child’s strength and weaknesses which could be their point of focus back home.

Apart from the psychological benefits for children, the recommendation would stand to benefit the school environment and parents themselves. It would serve to provide better safeguarding to children protecting them from bullying or harassment and even deterring them against bullying others. This, in turn, would create a safe and healthy classroom atmosphere for all the children. Moreover, parents can bring in their own expertise to the classroom learning and extracurricular activities. For example, a parent who is a finance manager might help in fund raising event whereas a doctor can give his/her insights during a biology class. Finally, volunteering in classroom would allow parents to spend more time with their child and provide a refreshing experience in their otherwise exhausting daily life routine.

However, despite these merits, the recommendation lacks pragmatism in its assertion that volunteering must be a requisition and not an option. Firstly, not all parents have time to volunteer time for school owing to their work or professional commitments. They may incur monetary loss when forced to spend time in schools thus threatening a child’s financial security. Moreover, not all parents are educated or cultured enough to abide by school’s regulations. Some may have smoking addictions, behaviour issues or even criminal records that could jeopardize the whole classroom ambience and the wellbeing of other students. Therefore, a realistic approach would be to make the recommendation as a matter of choice rather than compulsion. Furthermore, parents must not only be given some fundamental training but also be made to go through a criminal record check before being allowed to sit with children.

In conclusion, the recommendation for parents to volunteer time in their child’s schools has myriad psychological and academic benefits both for them and their child. However, making it a compulsion is not a feasible approach as neither all parents are available for volunteering nor all are fit to sit in a classroom with other children. A viable approach would be to keep it a choice for those willing to volunteer that too after training and proper forensic record checks if any.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, may, moreover, so, therefore, thus, well, whereas, apart from, for example, in conclusion, in fact

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.5258426966 72% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 22.0 12.4196629213 177% => OK
Conjunction : 26.0 14.8657303371 175% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 33.0505617978 133% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 63.0 58.6224719101 107% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 12.9106741573 170% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3202.0 2235.4752809 143% => OK
No of words: 576.0 442.535393258 130% => OK
Chars per words: 5.55902777778 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.89897948557 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0775721953 2.79657885939 110% => OK
Unique words: 291.0 215.323595506 135% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.505208333333 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 933.3 704.065955056 133% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 10.0 4.99550561798 200% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.708170697 60.3974514979 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.357142857 118.986275619 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5714285714 23.4991977007 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.71428571429 5.21951772744 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.45995672183 0.243740707755 189% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.136789801887 0.0831039109588 165% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0983035680318 0.0758088955206 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.298354390731 0.150359130593 198% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.040804166068 0.0667264976115 61% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 14.1392134831 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.97 12.1639044944 123% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.52 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 142.0 100.480337079 141% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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