Are School Years The Best Time In Life?

The school years as the best time in life. The disadvantages of the school period. Knowledge as the most important role in the supportive and caring atmosphere for students. The opportunities to develop abilities and realize themselves as individuals.

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Are School Years The Best Time In Life?

Thesis Statement: For many people school years are the best time in life. For some they are not, and even the worst.

There are so many happy events and periods in people`s life, major and minor: getting a toy of your dream, entering a school, good marks, first love, finishing school, entering a University, finishing it, getting a good job, marriage, childbirth, chidren`s success in life, then grandchildren. In fact, all these events are quite boring to analyze, because they are so typical and banal. But still all of us remember them the whole life and appreciate them very much. We think of our happy time with affection.

Advantages: School years in people`s life are usually associated with a happy troubleless childhood. The good points in these years are that you don`t have any serious problems, your parents solve them. You can play and amuse yourself all your free time. At school you have many friends, at home or at different clubs you do your hobbies.

As you are getting older and become a teenager, your interests change. You try to find all the possible ways to express your personality and interests. You try to draw the boys`s or the girls`s attention, then you fall in love for the first time…This is a wonderful period. Later you`re busy with the final exams at school and when you pass them and finish school you feel freedom and pleasant sadness that everything is over.

Also to the good sides we may refer that school years are the most emotionally full period, you get the greatest amount of knowledge and information at school, find a lot of new things, you learn to do a lot, you develop yourself as a student, as a person, as a team-worker and as a young man or woman.

The disadvantages of the school period are:

Many pupils may take less interest in studies in general, as they have to study a number of subjects which seem boring and useless to them. School years are a period of a hard mental activity, often there`s no time left for having a rest. This time is difficult for the teenagers to find their destiny and themselves in the future. Some experiences, especially first, can be very disappointing and bitter. That`s why a lot of complexes may appear, which can cause many problems in the future.

So, to know what makes school years unbearable for people, the research was made. The results were the following:

62% - useless subjects and hard work on them

33%-bad classmates or teachers

5%-wasting time doing wrong things

Now let`s see what the USA «'Top Teens'' web - site says.

Top reasons kids hate school:

1. Homework

2. Bullies (the major reason for the teenagers`s suicide)

3. Getting Up In the Morning

4. Annoying People

5. People Cheating On Their Work and Tests

6. Heavy Books

7. Grades, exams

8. Boredom

9. Favoritism Among Teachers

10. Summer Studies

11. Projects and presentations

12. Getting In Trouble for No Reason

13. Bitchy Popular Girls

14. Discrimination

15. Dress Code

16. Getting Told Off for Nothing

17. Length of the Day

18. Having to pay for School clothes

19. No Friends

20. Less Time With Family and Friends

21. Confusing Timetables

And there`s a statistics in people`s good attitude to school. So why are the school years the best period in people`s life?

49% - dearest friends

16% - first love

14% - favourite teacher

12% - favourite subject

9% - extra activities

Pupils' good opinions about their school lives:

Jeremy, 15:

School is the traditional place for acculturating children into our national life. In the modern age, the role assigned to our schools is to prepare children for the literate public culture. Some students like school, others don't; but they all study for eleven years and gain knowledge by doing different tasks. For students who are doing well in most subjects and who want to get higher education, school is an attractive place. But those who are not successful at school, and who are always pressed by teachers and their parents, school is boring and uninteresting.

I think that the most important role of school is giving knowledge. I can say that my school gives such knowledge, and that's why I'm happy at school. Most of my teachers have a lot of teaching experience; they understand very well the difficulties of the learning process. They help us to learn all subjects well. They also guide us and advise us on all aspects of our study and life. They share their knowledge and experience with us, and we respond with love. If you want to study well, you must feel relaxed and happy with your family, school and your social life. Your parents should understand you and help you when you need their help. My parents usually help and support me when I need it. We have our school psychologist who also helps us to overcome difficulties and cope with our problems. The main purpose of our school is to create a supportive and caring atmosphere for students.

The standard of education in our school is very high. I'm a rather good student really. I don't have many problems with the work; but I usually get into trouble for talking, especially when I speak at the same time as the teacher. Once I remember being taken to the head mistress for calling my classmate a bad name. However, I generally get on quite well with the teachers. I am quite successful in class and I usually go to school with pleasure, because I like my school and my teachers.

However I think that sometimes we have too much homework. Teachers and parents insist that doing homework develops the student's ability to work without assistance, or that additional work could help us complete our education successfully. But I believe, in many subjects, homework is totally unnecessary, because it doesn't do me any good. I think it's really stupid to copy from a textbook, and there is no point in duplicating the textbook. It's just reinventing the wheel. And if we could get rid of unnecessary homework, we would have more time to take up hobbies and interests.

School is not only a place of education; it is a place where we develop our relationships, increasing tolerance and mutual respect of one another among our classmates. At school we can enjoy different cultural activities and demonstrate our individual talents. Everyone has an opportunity to take part in different performances at a school or class party, or to take part in different sport competitions. These activities help us with our education and relationships among our classmates. We want to have harmony in our class and among our classmates, but it is rather difficult to achieve. Of course, we try our best to do it, and in many cases we overcome our problems and solve them. And only sensitive teachers can help us, because boys and girls are not passive lumps of clay; they are living, pulsating, developing, mysterious beings who must be studied and understood before they can be taught in the true sense.

So a teacher plays an important role in our education, and when we remember our school years we usually remember our teachers, if they were fair and intelligent or not. I think that I'm a lucky person - almost all my teachers are very interesting and intelligent. When our teachers criticize us, they follow such rules: they try to correct a student's action, not him; they do not impress upon him that he has no abilities; they try to contribute to the minds and souls of their students; they try to be a path for their students to go through a dark forest of school rules. But I can't judge all teachers, because there are as many opinions how to treat a child as there

Teachers must choose their methods themselves, but they should remember that they influence and shape the student's opinion about their school. As for me, I think that in our school almost all teachers understand the students and become like parents to us. They support us and care for us. I'm happy at my school and so are my classmates.

Some people think that school years are the happiest in their life. As for me, I cannot say whether it is right or wrong. I am still too young. I am 14 years old, and it is difficult for me to say whether my future will be more happy than my past. Moreover, school takes so much time that I hardly have time for anything else. I have classes in the first half of the day and in the evening I have to do my homework, which takes me several hours. Sometimes I have to sit up to write a composition, prepare a report, or learn a poem. Autumn and spring holidays are very short. In winter I have only two weeks free of school. Summer is the only time when I can forget about school. But it is impossible to do so. Little by little I start to understand that school plays a very important part in the life of every person, and knowledge gained at school is the key to the future success or failure.

School years may certainly be fairly happy. However, there are a lot of problems even today connected with school life and the formation of a personality. People think differently about this time of their life experience. In my opinion optimism or pessimism in the attitude to school years is equally wrong. School is the place where almost everything happens with a person for the first time. School years are the time of great expectations and great emotions. Not all emotions are always pleasant. School is the first true experience of the real life. At school a person makes his first friends, meets his first love, confronts the first betrayal. Here at school the person reads the first book and writes the first composition. He acquires basic knowledge of physics, mathematics, literature, history, biology, etc. But here at school the person not only accumulates knowledge, school helps the pupils to get on in life and become successful.

In a way it is a kind of society in miniature. School society is a model of real society with its advantages and disadvantages. School lessons are not given by teachers only. The harsh reality of everyday school life teaches pupils a lot of lessons which will be useful in their later life. School plays a very important social role. It provides high-quality education for pupils between the ages of 6 and 17. It brings together children with different interests and experience. School offers

Pupils the opportunities to develop their abilities, satisfy their curiosity, and realise themselves as individuals. At school pupils are taught to be responsible, gallant, and honest. Pupils should be aware that generosity and sympathy might be as important as moral virtue. School helps pupils to establish for themselves a set of convictions and beliefs. Here at school pupils can compare themselves with each other in terms of academic ability and athletic achievements. Teachers are knowledgeable in their subjects. School provides high-quality conditions that will enable pupils and teachers to make the most of their time.

School years, that is childhood and youth are generally considered to be the best periods of a person's lifetime, the happiest time grown-ups keep looking back to. Youth is surely the time when you get to know a lot of new things, and your perception and emotions are fresh and strong, which can sometimes make you feel happy. But from my point of view, all the difficulties and problems that teenagers face with, are really worth to happen, otherwise, a child or a teenager will never become an adult, a mature person. Also many people recollect all their troubles that seemed to be so serious in childhood as a funny trifles. Now they` re glad that they had them and remember about them with a smile.

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