Take a position on this question. You may write about either one of the two points of view given or you may present a different point of view on this question. Use specific reasons and examples to support your position.
Some teachers and administrators believe that extra-curriculum involvement plays an important role in a high school student’s social development. Therefore, this school district is considering an additional graduation requirement that students must participate in a school-sponsored club or sport for at least one season or year. Some students and parents are concerned that this requirement could conflict with personal obligations outside of the school day. In your opinion, should the district implement this graduation requirement?
While schools and teachers can be an excellent source of knowledge and practical intelligence, many students do lack the social development that many schools do not provide. This is especially seen in home-schooled students, who when confronting society, may seem awkward and uneasy. Because our lives revolve around society and society surrounds us, it is therefore reasonable to state that a class or sport or club, focused on developing a student’s social skills, would be just as important as regular curricular schoolwork. Such an activity should unquestionably be added into graduation requirement.
I had a friend in the fourth grade that was the brightest kid I knew. He was, by definition, a genius. Unfortunately, like many geniuses, he had very little social skills and could not always express his ideas. Aaron had built a wooden rubber-band gun in fourth grade, hade studied algebra by fifth, and was ahead of many high-school students in chemistry by sixth grade. He created hydrogen rockets at the age of 12 by separating the hydrogen from the oxygen in the H2O compound. By the age of 13 he had made a crossbow that was strong enough to shoot bolts through sheets of metal. By all means, Aaron was the brightest kid I knew. His one drawback though, was his undeveloped social skills. He was usually silent, not knowing what to say in a group of people. He could not express his grandiose ideas, simply because of his embarrassment in society. What Aaron needed was some activity that would boost his social skills. If he had that, he could have become extremely renowned even at a young age. However, social activities such as clubs or even sports were not required in our school and Aaron never could muster the courage to join one by his own will. Thus, he grew older and older and was continually challenged by groups of people and social events.
Aaron is a perfect example of why schools should add social activities into their graduation requirements list. These activities could have been a bit uncomfortable for him at first, but in the long run, he would have reaped huge harvests of social skills from them and become extremely great. They would not have would not have been in the way of his daily schedule in any way, on the contrary, social skills are so important that even if they pushed out some other of his daily activities, Aaron would have been better off.
Aaron is only one example of the social skill crisis. Hundreds of others can be provided. In my opinion, the district should definitely imply this social-skill-boosting requirement.
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Oh yeah, and this is my first post so I’m kinda not even sure if I’m ALLOWED to post this kinda stuff xD…
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that’s about what I predicted…