Argumentative Essay To: Mr. Dotzko From: Jean-Marc Francois Due Date: December, 19/11 Child spanking is a huge issue in our world today and some people consider it abusing each other while others say it’s fair discipline. These opposing opinions have been going on for a while according to our law system there’s a fine line between abuse and child spanking but a lot of people say it’s bad parenting to spank children and shouldn’t be done. Child spanking is a fair way to discipline your children and is not abusive according to the Human Right Code. It’s an effective way to discipline children and get them into shape but it can be considered abuse because it causes a lot of increased aggressiveness in children. Child abusing and child spanking are two completely different things and I think that it’s just fine to discipline your children with spanks and that it’s not abusive.
The broken windows, terrible condition of the school position the readers to show pity for the children studying in the schools. The two students in the cartoons also appeal to the reader’s emotion as they wish the school had facilities. This shows that state schools are poorly resourced due to the lack of “shelter sheds” and other important resources to provide the children with a good study environment. The editor concludes by saying “We ought to grasp it”. By placing a strong inclusive sentence at the end creates an impact on the reader.
Kent J. Fetzer expressed, “Our biggest problem with a school uniform policy is the anti-individuality message it sends.” He feels students lose their freedom when forced to conform to only certain apparels. He believes in letting students experience freedom in order to learn how to act responsibly. I strongly believe teens need to learn how to act responsibly at a young age to develop skills for the future, but I refuse to believe that uniforms take away individuality. In contrast to Fetzer’s beliefs, Mike Kelly proclaimed, "Uniforms instill discipline, help students focus on their studies and eliminate pressure on parents to outfit their kids." He believes uniforms help parents as well as the students.
Today, children view school as a “place of danger”, and their main focus is to avoid danger as much as possible (Holt 360). This danger comes in the form of mistakes on tests, quizzes, and homework assignments in which the children earn grades based on what they are able to remember at that time, instead of making a long-term connection between the educational content and the children’s own distinct method of learning. Teachers, despite their best intentions, diminish the children’s will to read when they conform to these “conventional” methods of teaching. These methods have made a game, between the teachers and students, out of learning to read; a game in which the students are to guess what the teachers want to hear and to agree with the conclusions the teachers draw. This gives children the impression that reading is dangerous, because they don’t want to make mistakes and lose the game.
In part one of Fahrenheit 451, Beatty explained his contempt for Clarisse's character. He criticized her lack of interest in the technological driven society and described her as "queer" (Bradbury 60) to separate her from the others living in their society. Beatty’s sanctioning of controlling how much knowledge a person can obtain also shows how technology can socially separate individuals. Beatty first explains the way people should be controlled. He says "Cram them full of noncombustible data [and] they'll get a sense of motion without moving" (Bradbury 61).
Gender Bias in our School System Myra and David Sadker, experts in the field of education and sexism in schools published the opinionated article “Hidden Lessons” as an excerpt from their book “Failing at Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls”. Their work brings to light an omnipresent gender bias problem in education. Is gender bias an issue that violates the laws of ethos, pathos, and logos or does this article embellish the issue found in modern day society? The Sadker’s use “Hidden Lessons” as a launch board to illustrate gender biasing in schools by stating examples of unfair teacher interaction where girls are given less opportunities than boys via unfair activities. The Sadker’s open their “Hidden Lessons” work by stating that “it is difficult to detect sexism unless you know precisely how to observe it” (Sadker, and Sadker 55).
In an article about corporal punishment titled “Get your beat on,” by Cathy Barnum, she writes about the negative and positive effects of corporal punishment in schools. Barnum attempts to explain the negative effects of corporal punishment. She notes that spanking lowers children’s self-worth and hinders their academic abilities. And, she notes that it negatively alters their behavior while instilling fear in them. While the situation can be seen from the Barnum’s point of view, her opinions are completely wrong One thing Barnum is completely wrong in is when she notes “We should beat the kids every day to teach them we love them” (17).
Essay on bullying Bullying is bullshit. What keeps the bullies motivated to do stuff like this, and why do they even do it? Is it just bad parenting, or is it just something you’re born with? If that could be answered, bullying might be exterminated. “Bullies are just children with parents who treat them bad”, is said a lot when talking about bullying, have I observed.
We cut others down to feel more advanced, but call it competition. We attack others' opinions by invalidating their experience as a inaccurate perversion of the "truth", but call it persuasion. We enslave our children in narrow bottlenecks to craft an adult in our own image, and call it love. We have to "mystify" our perverted societal structures in order to pass them on to our children because without thousands of years of regression toward alienation, the innocence of a child seems almost wrong in our eyes. They are born "wrong" and we have to indoctrinate them to a state of righteousness that fits our scheme.
The top three reasons seem to be that the book is either sexually explicit, had offensive language, or unsuited to any age group. Others are deemed oppressive, racially insensitive, violent, or just plain obscene and controversial. Despite the good parents and school officials believe they are doing for their children, they are essentially keeping them from the knowledge they need and deserve to become an intelligent part of society. Let the