Young people are often influenced by their peers. This is called peer pressure. Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?

These days, there's a general debate over the issue of young adolescents being influenced by

peer

groups. Some people believe that

peer

pressure

has more strength than drawbacks,

while

others say that it has more demerits than merits. Both sides have reasonable points but in my opinion,

this

say will agree with the formal statement. On the one hand, one of the reasons why

peer

pressure

among youth is bad is because of the bad influence

among

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themselves

especially

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at school.

That is

to say, if students

at

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campus join a group of smokers in the name of having fun,

this

not only

mislead

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them

of

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doing their responsibilities but

also

wastes their time.

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according

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toresearch

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research

conducted by

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William at Bugema University showed that 40% of

the

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learner who

have

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peers tend to fail exams because of bad influence and

pressure

from their

peer

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hence

lacking time to read.

On the other hand

, despite the above points, there are many advantages that outweigh the negatives of

peer

pressure

such

as adolescents having fun with their age mates.

In other words

, when age mates meet during their free time, they are able to enjoy themselves

such

as partying or watching a movie together which helps them not to be bored alone.

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of the young people at school always find a team where they can fit

during

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school period.

In addition

, the tension in the team they choose helps them to perform better during academic studies. Children normally have

competition

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a competition

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of

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reading to see which team wins in performance and sometimes they are given rewards by their head teachers which always motivate them to work harder. To illustrate more, Most of the schools in Uganda use group competition in order to help learners achieve high. In conclusion,

therefore

l agree that the benefits of

peer

force overshadow the drawbacks because of better performance of students and enjoyment. So l hope in future, teenagers will be allowed to join more groups.