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
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to be good citizens has at the
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two points of view. If the public
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through schools should manage
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or if the
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should learn their
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how to be good
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of the community
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Many
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claim that it is
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' responsibility to raise their
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to be good
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of society because
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should already have some good manners before starting the
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day of
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. So
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should teach their
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how to behave and what can be done and what cannot be done before their
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will start
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. In my country - Romania, we have
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saying that every child should have his / hers 7 years from home. What my
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want to say by
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is that every child should know how to properly behave in society before he or she will start
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(because in Romania
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starts around the age of 7 or 8). Other
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suggest that the public
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through schools should learn
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how to become good citizens.
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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
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will arrive in the public
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, kindergartens, or other institutions with the same purpose. In
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case, the argument is that
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do not have time to teach
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how to become better
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of the community and it is the obligation of the teachers from kindergartens to teach
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how to behave, what is allowed, and what is forbidden.
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, the
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that sustain
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point of view would claim that the teachers are better at doing so because they have the professional skills to learn
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how they should behave. In my opinion,
parents
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should teach their
children
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how to be good
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of society, because it would be too late to learn
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how to behave when they will start
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, but the public
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should perfect or correct the cases when
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did not have the knowledge or the meanings to learn their
children
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how to be good
members
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of the community.
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    • Sentence 2 - Detailed background statement
    • Sentence 3 - Thesis
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    • Sentence 1 - Topic sentence
    • Sentence 2 - Example
    • Sentence 3 - Discussion
    • Sentence 4 - Conclusion
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    • Sentence 1 - Topic sentence
    • Sentence 2 - Example
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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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