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There is a lot of pressure on young people today to succeed academically. As a result, some people believe that non-academic subjects, such as physical education and cookery, should be removed from the school syllabus so that children can concentrate on academic work. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

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Nowadays, youngsters are more pressured than in the past in order to reach academic success.
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, some people argue that non-academic disciplines ought to be taken away from schools, so as to let
students
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 focus on the most important
subjects
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. Personally, I strongly disagree, in
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students
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 should keep on studying non-academic
subjects
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. First and foremost,
students
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 during their academic career have to deal with numerous expectations and
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 is the reason why they feel so overwhelmed.
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, even if some
subjects
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 were removed,
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 would not solve the problem. To illustrate, an important American study demonstrated that almost 80% of the pressure a student feels is
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 others' expectations, not to
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subjects
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 themselves.
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, changing school plans without varying the entire environment would not be effective.
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, practical
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, like physical education, do not take up so much time
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 classic disciplines do.
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, in regards to
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 the whole time spent on
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 subject is the one spent during classes. In fact,
students
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 do not receive
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homework
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 they find cooking very relaxing, so it is actually a regenerating class rather than a stressful one.
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, doing practical activities at school can improve the physical health of the
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, avoiding medical issues like obesity or heart problems. To summarise, removing some
subjects
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 from the study plan would not result in anything good, since it would not reduce people's expectations towards
students
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 but rather it would make them more stressed, by taking
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away their moments of
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 during schooltime.

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Topic Vocabulary:
  • pressure
  • succeed
  • academically
  • non-academic
  • physical education
  • cookery
  • school syllabus
  • concentrate
  • academic work
  • well-rounded
  • enhancement
  • practical skills
  • balanced education system
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