SAT practice essay

SAT Practice Essay

I believe that it is important for schools to help students to understand moral issues and social issues. Schools don’t teach students just to get them through high school and college. School educators help students succeed in life as a whole.

On one hand, it is very important to teach them math, English, and social studies skills. Doing that opens up a lot of doors for students which may or may not lead them to college. For most people, college helps them to further extend their success into getting a job which is a general goal for many of us students. There is that law that says everyone must pass the standardized test, and in that certain sense, it is extremely crucial to teach the correct subjects.

But when will you ever need to solve a math problem and solve for “x”? The students will be knowledgeable in many ways, but everyone makes many choices everyday, especially through out high school: to go to class or to cut it, drugs, sex, etc. If you look on the other hand, you can clearly see where moral choices and social issues are critical. For example, every school such as ours teaches the effect of drugs, sex, etc. But just teaching the mere facts just doesn’t cut it. Schools say what is right and what is wrong, but some students do it anyway. For most of them, the outcome wasn’t so great. Moral choices are for students to make, but should definitely be taught by educators.

The war on Iraq. Social issues world wide such as this and social issues in the community like homelessness creates different perspectives within each student which stays with them for life, which also greatly influences their thinking and decision making, which is absolutely critical in life. No one can say which should be taught more than the other because they both are absolutely important in life.