Some people believe that sports should be a compulsory at school, while others believe that it should optional. Discuss both sides.

Sport has been a field which arouses public attention for a few decades. While it is recommended to be an obligatory subject in training programs for schoolchildren, sport is also argued to be optional by other citizens.

On the one hand, there are two major reasons for which schools should adopt a policy forcing children to take up sports. From health perspective, sport has been considered to be a helpful physical activity that can tighten our muscles and burn exceeding calories. Therefore, researchers have indicated that if children play sports on a regular basis, they will be less likely to suffer from many dangerous illnesses, such as diabetes, obesity of cardiovascular diseases. In other words, when regarding sports as compulsory subjects, schools will enhance the role they play in health promotion for youngsters. From training perspective, thanks to sports, institutions are able to assure a comprehensive development for students. Indeed, collective sports like football or volleyball are expected to equip children with a whole array of essential interpersonal skills, ranging from teamwork to leadership, which an exam-oriented education often neglects.

On the other hand, others believe that sports should be restricted as an option only due to several causes. Firstly, parents often hesitate to allow their children to participate in sports because of their high probability of injuries. Specifically, if students suffer from these occurrences, they will be out of condition, negatively influencing or even interrupting their academic performances. Secondly, sport, which glorifies victories and superiorities, also raises question marks over its risk of moral character erosion. In fact, this will foster competitive spirits, which result in harmful manipulations for children in formative years like a win-at-all-cost attitude, aggressive behavior or cheating.

In conclusion, while making sports compulsory at schools will bring about advantages, it is also understandable if they are only optional.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, if, regarding, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, in conclusion, in fact, such as, in other words, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 10.4138276553 48% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 41.998997996 105% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1735.0 1615.20841683 107% => OK
No of words: 303.0 315.596192385 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.72607260726 5.12529762239 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17215713816 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.20269440748 2.80592935109 114% => OK
Unique words: 194.0 176.041082164 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.640264026403 0.561755894193 114% => OK
syllable_count: 525.6 506.74238477 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.1064566815 49.4020404114 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.928571429 106.682146367 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.6428571429 20.7667163134 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.2142857143 7.06120827912 145% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.233353107471 0.244688304435 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0800698447903 0.084324248473 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.080764232705 0.0667982634062 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.152085863015 0.151304729494 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0300471147456 0.056905535591 53% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.4 13.0946893788 125% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 50.2224549098 83% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.95 12.4159519038 128% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.99 8.58950901804 116% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 78.4519038076 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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