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Some people think that parents should teach children how to be good members of society. Others, however, believe that school is the place to learn this. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.

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The debate regarding who's responsibility is to educate
children
 to be good citizens has at the
center
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 two points of view. If the public
system
 through schools should manage
this
 or if the
parents
 should learn their
children
 how to be good
members
 of the community
.
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 Many
people
 claim that it is
parents
' responsibility to raise their
children
 to be good
members
 of society because
kids
 should already have some good manners before starting the
first
 day of
school
. So
parents
 should teach their
children
 how to behave and what can be done and what cannot be done before their
kids
 will start
school
. In my country - Romania, we have
this
 saying that every child should have his / hers 7 years from home. What my
people
 want to say by
this
 is that every child should know how to properly behave in society before he or she will start
school
 (because in Romania
school
 starts around the age of 7 or 8). Other
people
 suggest that the public
system
 through schools should learn
children
 how to become good citizens.
That is
 because in many countries the women have a short maternity leave and they have to return to work very early so the majority of the
kids
 will arrive in the public
system
, kindergartens, or other institutions with the same purpose. In
this
 case, the argument is that
parents
 do not have time to teach
children
 how to become better
members
 of the community and it is the obligation of the teachers from kindergartens to teach
children
 how to behave, what is allowed, and what is forbidden.
Also
, the
people
 that sustain
this
 point of view would claim that the teachers are better at doing so because they have the professional skills to learn
kids
 how they should behave. In my opinion,
parents
 should teach their
children
 how to be good
members
 of society, because it would be too late to learn
children
 how to behave when they will start
school
, but the public
system
 should perfect or correct the cases when
parents
 did not have the knowledge or the meanings to learn their
children
 how to be good
members
 of the community.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • good members of society
  • teach
  • parents
  • schools
  • responsibility
  • values
  • respect
  • empathy
  • responsibility
  • formal education
  • citizenship
  • ethics
  • social responsibility
  • lead by example
  • role models
  • conducive environment
  • extracurricular activities
  • community involvement
  • collaborate
  • holistic approach
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