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SAT Essay #1 Homosexuals! Abortion! Alcohol! These are current issues happening in our society. In schools they don’t want to expose children to this stuff. I say we should tell them the truth. This would prepare our kids more for the future. This benefits them because once they know this information they’ll be more ready for the adult world. This will also make it easier for them in life experience. This is very necessary information to help get them into the adult world. The information will also help them succeed in life too. Some of the reasons why are like so they can make the right decisions and not get hurt. Also it will help them get the career they want but it will help them understand the circumstances in order to be successful. This information will help children in another way too. It will help them but help everyone so they could change these things for the better. With this kind of knowledge they can solve these issues and bring peace to all. I believe that it’s necessary our kids learn today’s problems to help be our future of the best. I conclude that these kids must know the truth so they can help themselves and help everyone as well.

SAT Essay #2

Why aren’t schools facing up to their responsibilities? They need to address the critical thinking and social issues of our time. Most kids do not have access to places or people that will help them with the critical thinking and social issues. I now I don’t have that many resources for help on that. We send our kids to school to prepare them for the future, jobs and even college. Let’s say they got into college then who is going to help them make their decisions and choices while they are on their own. High Schools need to help their students with their critical thinks and social issues. After High School if kids aren’t able to make the right decisions then they will be shot of the path of success. I thought we sent kids to school to get put on the right path? Imagine that you just got out of High school, finally right, but what does finishing High School tell kids? It tells them that they are king of the world and that they can do what ever they want with out knowing how to make god choices they won’t know what to do and that may lead to alcoholism and drug addictions. Aren’t schools against drugs and alcohol? I thought that schools were supposed to teach their student to drift away from drugs and alcohol. If schools don’t teach kids right from wrong and how to make the right decisions then the bad decisions that everyone makes might lead down the wrong path.

SAT Essay #3

Yes, every school has their own standard whether the school is a public or private school. But they should be aware that the main purpose of school is not only to go on to college, get a job, support yourself and live a great life, but there are also moral choices and social issues to be taught and dealt with. Say for example, a successful young man graduated from a great high school and is getting ready for a great college. But what if he’s peer pressured into drugs and trouble and such, just because all he was taught in school was to get a good job? There are also social issues. Say he has a high-paying job. There are very needy people, many with diseases, no homes or family, and no food. He should help with these social issues by donating money and assisting these problems. But he wasn’t taught to help others in school. All he was taught to do was the graduate and get a job. Graduating and getting a job aren’t the most important things in life. There are many other social issues and moral choices that need to be solved and decided in life, and schools should educate them more about these things.

SAT Essay #4

Students are coming out of school and not knowing anything about moral choices and social issues. Students then make the wrong, uneducated lazy choices in their life. The schools are getting lazy with their education. And if you’re parents send you to a decent school they expect at least proper education. Students that aren’t educated about moral choices and social values are being pushed thru school making bad choices, if we educated children in school about the right choices they should make, they would maybe live a more successful life. It seems that if some schools aren’t really caring so much about the education of their students, like they’re just pushing them through school so they can take in more students and make more money. We need to stop this and make schools educate the students more thoroughly. Some parents work long hours to pay for their children’s education, to send them to a better school, expecting a proper education. Some schools teach the basics (Math, English, Science, etc.) but they need to start teaching about moral choices and social values, because you can be an expert in all the other subjects, but if you cant make the right choices, you will not go far in life. Students need to be properly educated on their values. They aren’t making the right choices. The schools aren’t helping either they are getting lazy and not educating their students properly. And finally some parents work long hours to send their children to a decent school, and still their children aren’t getting the proper education. We need to start education are students about moral choices and social values, so we know that we are going to have a fulfilling future.

SAT Essay #5

High schools should not be forced to teach the students about moral choices or social issues. It is not the schools responsibility, it should be the parents. Parents should teach heir kids about moral choices and social issues. Kids usually listen to their parents more than they listen to other people and it is the parents responsibility to teach. Parents and teachers may have different beliefs. If the parents teach the kids one way and the teachers educate them differently, the student will be very confused. Confusion leads to curiosity. Students are curious by nature and if you tell them when to not do something try something, they will. For example, if you tell kids that you should never try to mix beers until you are 22, they will try beer before you are even 21. High school teachers' jobs are to educate students to pre-pair them for their next step in life, college. There is so much to teach that it is hard to pile it all into only four years. Also, most students would want to keep their school life and their social life separate. They probably wouldn't want the teachers to know everything they have done wrong. It would make the relationship between teachers and students awkward. In conclusion, I do not believe that high schools have to teach us about moral choices and social issues. It is the responsibility of the parents to educate us to do what is right and what is wrong. High school should teach us what we know for college and for the rest of our life.

SAT Essay #6

Moral choices and social issues are what help to keep our country in balance. Schools should strive to help students understand wrong from right and the issues that are going on in our world. Should I do this? Is this right? Moral choices are what help to keep the world in balance. Moral choices help people choose the right choice. Kids will not know right from wrong sometimes. Social issues are very important to know. Such as when deciding for a president. If you don’t know what going on in the world, then what are you going to base your decision from? If you don’t know the important issues going on in our world then you will be almost completely clueless in any debate you listen to.

SAT Essay #7

While schools do have responsibilities beyond training people for jobs and getting students into college, there should be a limit to how much they do it. Schools are one of the main sources of education. Many students go to school not only to learn how to read and write, but also on life lessons. However, that doesn't mean that teachers can enforce all of their beliefs on students. If a teacher is against gay marriage, he/she shouldn't be telling the class that gay people are bad. I think that schools should teach students the basic lessons of life. They should teach them to be courteous to others, and the dangers of drugs and alcohol. THey should team them about abstinence and baortion, ut they shouldn't toally enforce it upon the students, because after all it is their choice.

SAT Essay #8

Schools should not help students understand moral choices and social issues because they might give the student the wrong idea, take away their opinion and the responsibility of the parents. Although they may only try to teach the issues teachers sometimes they cannot help but add in their personal opinions. Although it may not seem like a big idea, students at any age are easily persuaded and their parents might not agree with what he/she teaches. For example in the 8th grade my Social Studies teacher told me a short story about a class during WWI. The story was about a teacher who taught a kindergarten class and instead of doing patriotic things to start class, like reading the Pledge of Allegiance she skipped it and by the end of the class she convinced the children to become unpatriotic and pro another country. In addition the children should be able to make decisions about moral by themselves. If they learn about it in school then they’ll be learning someone elses morals and opinions on issue. If this happens then their voice will be lost and won’t matter anymore. I believe that schools should not help students to understand moral choices and social issues. If they do then they may teach the wrong lessons and the voice of the individual will be lost.

SAT Essay #9

Children go to school to prepare themselves for college and eventually a career. Along the way, they may face issues that math and language classes do not prepare them to make. They'll make decisions that will include whether or not to smoke, to drink, to take drugs, and much more. But it shouldn't be the school's responsibility to address these moral choices and social issues; it should be the parents' responsibility. Schools are already busy enough preparing their students for their future, whether it be to go to college or to get a job. It shouldn't be their responsibility to have to //also// enforce moral choices and social issues upon them. They should reserve their already minimal amount of free time to help those students who are struggling academically. Most parents who send their children to school, private or public, send them to receive an education that will help them get into a good college and, down the line, have a successful career. It also should not be the responsibility of the school to help students understand moral choices and social issues because of the difference in points of views that may occur. While teachers may be preaching one thing in schools, parents may be teaching another at home. While schools play an important role in much that we do, they shouldn't have to play a role in addressing the choices and values children and students have and make. Though children may not show their appreciation for and may not seem like they're listening to their parents during their teen years, they really are. Though at times I do not appreciate my parents as much as I should, and I do sometimes act as if I don't care, I know that the morals and values they have instilled in me will last a lifetime.