IELTS Writing Task 2 with sample answer.
You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.
It is compulsory for children to attend school between the ages of 5 and 16. Many people are in favor of raising the age at which children must start their schooling to 6 or 7, and age at which they are allowed to stop to 17 or 18. people of this view believe it is important for young children to spend more time with their parents, while they believe teenagers would gain more from staying in school longer.
To what extent do you agree with this view?
Write at least 250 words.
Sample Answer:
Undeniably, it is the basic question in the mind of parents and society that what is the appropriate age of schooling? While our country generally follows the conventional trend of 5 to 16, many countries are adopting new concept of 6 or 7 to 17 or 18. According to my view, later is more beneficial for children both academically and socially.
It is a well proven fact that early formative years are extremely important for the emotional and social development of a child. More years at home certainly deepens the emotional bonding of a child with parents, siblings and other family members. Moreover, they get better awareness about their culture and give family more time to teach moral and socially acceptable values. In addition, these days even parents are capable of teaching basic education. Finally, I strongly believe that it is highly unethical to burden young ones with educational responsibility at an early age.
Likewise, spending transformative and turbulent teen age in school shall be advantageous, as they are immature to take decisions, if exposed to universities at the age of 16. Can they handle ragging at such an age? Would they be able to challenge the peer pressure? And will they be able to prevent themselves from socially unacceptable behaviour like alcoholism, drug addiction and many more? These are the fundamental questions we need to ask ourselves, as many lives have been ruined like this.
To conclude, both early childhood and late adolescent are vital period for a student, hence we should adopt this transformation bravely for the betterment of the children and nation.
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