Claim: The educational curriculum for young children should emphasize social skills and the arts over math and reading skills.
Reason: Such a curriculum would foster important moral and social development in children and lead to them becoming well adjusted adults.
Develop a response to the claim in which you discuss whether or not you agree with it. Focus specifically on whether or not you agree with the reason upon which the claim is based.
Children are our future. Thus, it is vital that parents, teachers, and society alike ensure that children get the best possible education as to prepare them for a successful life. That being said, arguing that the educational curriculum for young children should emphasize social skills and the arts over math and reading skills for moral and social development reasons is nearsighted. Social skills and the arts should be as important as math and reading skills. However, if a tradeoff must be made, math and reading skills should still be prioritized over social skills and the arts.
First and foremost, cognitive development is potentially the most important educational goal when it comes to young children. Unlike cognitive skills, moral and social development can be fostered in young children in various environments outside of the classroom. The average child from an average American family might not have parents who have the time to teach them how to read or how to do math at home, but will be able to learn about what is right or wrong and how to socialize with people through family interactions, playground interactions and other everyday interactions. Thus, the core goal of school is to ensure that children get the quantifiable education they need that they might not be able to get anywhere else. Math and reading skills are vital to a child’s academic future and gives children a path to leading a successful life. Thus, these skills should be prioritized over that of social skills or the arts.
Additionally, we should prioritize math and reading skills over social skills and the arts because on top of the cognitive skills that can be instilled, math and reading skills can also help foster moral and social development. In fact, it can be argued that reading, which improves reading skills, can educate a child more about morals than social skills and the arts ever could at such a tender age. Since most young children are given reading assignments that promote morals, they get a better understanding of tenets and values through reading than through artwork. Similarly, math is a notoriously challenging subject. Many children will need to ask for help in understanding their assignments, thus improving their social skills. Children can also build confidence and self esteem by succeding in such a difficult subject, thereby furthering their social development. As such, while social skill and the arts are evidently different compared to math and reading skills, we can argue that the latter set of skills can also foster important moral and social development in children and lead to them becoming well adjusted adults.
Opponents will argue that emphasizing social skills and the arts are the best way to foster moral and social development. However, we should take their statement with a grain of salt and consider other classes and skills. As demonstrated in the previous paragraph, math and reading skills can help foster moral and social development. A stronger case is that sports would be a great class to foster such development as well. On top of keeping children fit and healthy, sports can teach children the importance of communication, teamwork, and integrity. As such, if the educational curriculum’s main focus is to ensure moral and social development in young children, there are various other classes we can consider and emphasize instead of social skills and the arts.
In conclusion, we all want to do right by our future generation. As such, it is vital for us to continue to emphasize math and reading skills, along with other skills and classes, so that we can raise a generation of smart, conscious and well adjusted adults.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 595, Rule ID: MAIN_FOCUS[1]
Message: Use simply 'focus'.
Suggestion: focus
...s such, if the educational curriculum’s main focus is to ensure moral and social developme...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, similarly, so, still, thus, well, while, as to, in conclusion, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 28.0 12.4196629213 225% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 43.0 14.8657303371 289% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 33.0505617978 115% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 58.6224719101 101% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 12.9106741573 139% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3091.0 2235.4752809 138% => OK
No of words: 606.0 442.535393258 137% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.10066006601 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.96155895361 4.55969084622 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73881114624 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 241.0 215.323595506 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.397689768977 0.4932671777 81% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 911.7 704.065955056 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 9.0 3.10617977528 290% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.9527479592 60.3974514979 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.884615385 118.986275619 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.3076923077 23.4991977007 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.88461538462 5.21951772744 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 10.2758426966 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.596246565693 0.243740707755 245% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.192270381223 0.0831039109588 231% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.141366780299 0.0758088955206 186% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.372527080752 0.150359130593 248% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.140548002089 0.0667264976115 211% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 14.1392134831 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.8420337079 116% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.49 8.38706741573 89% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 100.480337079 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 595, Rule ID: MAIN_FOCUS[1]
Message: Use simply 'focus'.
Suggestion: focus
...s such, if the educational curriculum’s main focus is to ensure moral and social developme...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, similarly, so, still, thus, well, while, as to, in conclusion, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 28.0 12.4196629213 225% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 43.0 14.8657303371 289% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 33.0505617978 115% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 58.6224719101 101% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 12.9106741573 139% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3091.0 2235.4752809 138% => OK
No of words: 606.0 442.535393258 137% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.10066006601 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.96155895361 4.55969084622 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73881114624 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 241.0 215.323595506 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.397689768977 0.4932671777 81% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 911.7 704.065955056 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 9.0 3.10617977528 290% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.9527479592 60.3974514979 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.884615385 118.986275619 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.3076923077 23.4991977007 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.88461538462 5.21951772744 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 10.2758426966 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.596246565693 0.243740707755 245% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.192270381223 0.0831039109588 231% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.141366780299 0.0758088955206 186% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.372527080752 0.150359130593 248% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.140548002089 0.0667264976115 211% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 14.1392134831 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.8420337079 116% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.49 8.38706741573 89% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 100.480337079 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.