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A thought provoking current issue concerns whether classmates effect more on a child's success in school than parents do. Some argues that parents have more influence on their children in school. However, in my opinion, classmates definitely have more influence than parents.
To begin with, a child communicates with classmates more than parents in school. When a child goes to school, he or she spends more time on school than home. A child may spend at least about 6 hours a day in school, and a child constantly speaks to friends, hears what mates say, plays with other children in school. It can be said that school is an agora for a child, crowded with lots of similar, friendly, vigorous classmates. Moreover, if parents are busy doing their works, it is possible to think that a child would not spend time with parents even when a child returned to home.
On top of that, a child can share his or her thoughts over the future career with classmates more freely and effectively. A child may not want to tell the future career to parents, because saying to parents can be shying and act as a burden to a child himself or herself. Instead, as classmates are same or at least similar with the age, classmates have similar thoughts with a child and a child might think that it is more interesting and enjoyable to share the future career, which is not fully developed yet. Mates can plan for their future career each other more precisely with information they know and with numerous interractions. Because they are not fully grown internally, they will have a tendency to rely on each other than parents, who perhaps sometimes they think too rigid.
To sum up, a child spend his or her time with classmates more than parents and feel more comfortable to share the thought about the future with classmates. With these reasons, I believe that classmates have more influence on a child's success in school. |