【Issue互批】wsxy1992作业贴
Issue 81.All parents should be required to volunteer time to their children's schools.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.
Should all parents be required to volunteer time to their children’s school, as the speaker asserts?
It might be tempting to agree with the speaker, based on the parents’ legal authority over, familiarity with, and then, the necessity to their own children. However, after a far more careful consideration, a compelling argument can be made that the education, one of the most important treasure of people’s lives, should be acquired from schools by the help of parents, but probably not in that way.
Firstly, the speaker’s recommendation could be reasonable because it is necessary for the parent participates in his or her children’s learning. Parents concerned about their children's education rely on three arguments for active parental participation in that process. The first argument, and the one expressed most often and vociferously, is that parents hold the ultimately legal authority to make key decisions about what and how their own children learn including choice of curriculum and text books, pace and schedule for learning, and the extent to which their child should learn alongside other children. The second argument is that only a parent can truly be familiar with children to know the unique needs of a child including what educational choices are best suited for the child. The third argument is that parents are more motivated--by pride and ego--than any other person to take whatever measures are needed to ensure their children receive the best possible education.
Nevertheless, times witness the booming of the economy, and the pace of breadwinners speed up at the same time. Playing that role of the family makes parents lack of time on their children. Somebody fully agree with the speaker may put it that not all of the works occupy too much time of their parents to get involved in the after-school education. But it’s hard to ask for leave at office hours to meet the volunteer time for parents under the circumstance that school time overlaps with most of parents’ work time. If that recommendation is forced to execute, impact on the industry from which parents get paid would react against the education.
Last but not least, at the position of the schools, they should not let all parents to interfere teaching even the argument above collapse. Some parents’ request to get into their children’s study in some way wrong must be followed by the objection from schools. The conflict between teachers and parents will get the child confused, then become the final victim of he escalation of disputes which might not the outcome the speakers want to see. Schools, as a small society before those teenagers face to the real one, should undertake the most part of children’s education, whatever of academic or mentality. Parents, as not only a guide but also model of the children, weaken schools’ function if too much involvement disturbs the normal school life.
In sum, all parents being required to volunteer time to children’s school is not a valid recommendation. Parents meeting could be a nice choice, having considered that teachers and parents need some time to face to face talk about children. The care from two sides cannot be separated from each other but just in a more effective way. Children’s rosy future is always their same ultimate rules of education.
bullshit~~~~~~~求大神斧正 不懂规矩啊，应该这样是么。。。。。。。。。。
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