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There is an idea that the age of highschool graduates should be 18 years. But some individuals think that this project does not allow for opinion of majority of students. This is a complex issue and both positions seem to be worth considering. There are three main arguments in favor of staying in school till 18 years. One is that children will be under care of teachers and parents. It is important for many families because of parenthood . An additional point is that graduates can receive some vital skills. Furemore it is consider that schoolchildren will obtain some working skills. So they may work after school. This ability is important for families who do not have enough money to educate their school graduates. On the other hand it can also be argued counter position. It is obvious that persons who leave school in 18 years became adults later than ones who stay in school till 16. Another worrying trend is that students are dependent on his parents. This is bad for both individuals and for our whole society. In addition the increasing of school age may underlie a demographic problem.<range type="comment" id="417018248_9"> After school a lot of persons go to college or institute. And they will get married later than now and will have amount of children less than now.</range id="417018248_9"> In conclusion I would like to notice that while it seems to be really important to stay in school till 18, but there are still other sides to make independent individuals. A possible compromise would be to give a choice to stay in school or to begin an unassisted life.


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There is indeed a dispute whether school leaving age should be raised to 18. Personally I mostly agree with the idea though I have several concerns <range type="comment" id="416986268_1">about the question</range id="416986268_1">. There are a number of pressing issues why we should keep adolescents in school or some other form of training until the age of 18. The first argument that could be made is that modern jobs require much higher level of education than jobs of the past used to. Related to this argument is the idea that more prolonged learning would eventually increase young people earning power. Another point that could be made <range type="comment" id="416986268_2">(could be emphasized)</range id="416986268_2"> is that 16 year olds nowadays are completely unprepared for life. Yet another compelling reason for doing so is the noble aspiration for decreasing teenagers crime rate. There are, however, vital reasons against that require careful consideration. It is undeniable that realization of the proposal would require additional expenses, which is extremely unfavorable in current economical situation. <range type="comment" id="416986268_3">Furthermore</range id="416986268_3">, some people bring up the problem that school education and workplace training might not be as efficient as expected, which in turn could cause many schools to become delinquents’ dens. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So, in conclusion, I would like to say that the issue is rather <range type="comment" id="416986268_4">sophisticated</range id="416986268_4"> and one should exercise extreme caution when making a decision. For the reasons discussed above first of all we should <range type="comment" id="417017764_1">carefully plan in minute details</range id="417017764_1"> what will exactly students do in their additional time in school and only after that will we (will) be able to reach the optimal resolution.
 * Essay by Andrey Shevtsov**


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 * Essay by Vladimir Ignatiev**


 * //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Everyone should stay in school until the age of 18. To what extent do you agree or disagree? //**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif;">It is necessary to end school education at the age not younger than 18. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">This is <range type="comment" id="418021706_1">a</range id="418021706_1"> very controversial issue and one could <range type="comment" id="418021706_2">name</range id="418021706_2"> arguments for and against. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif;">There are three major arguments in favor of staying in school until the age of 18.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">First of all, according to the<range type="comment" id="418021706_3"> positions</range id="418021706_3"> of the large part of psychologists and sociologists, making a choice of the future work should be done by <range type="comment" id="418021706_4">formed personality.</range id="418021706_4"> The next reason is that t<range type="comment" id="418021706_5">o be in the environment of only older students</range id="418021706_5"> in the university is very stressful for the external pupils. <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Another point that can be made is that <span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">practice makes perfect.

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">On the other hand there are some questionable sides to this<range type="comment" id="418021706_7"> age limitation of staying at school.</range id="418021706_7"> It is obvious that there should be a possibility for smart pupils to graduate earlier and continue to study at the next educational level. In contrast, a <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">repetition <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> is helpful for pupils who don’t have clear understanding of the<range type="comment" id="418021706_8"> passed material</range id="418021706_8">, but pupils who have fully mastered the curriculum<range type="comment" id="418021706_9"> feel boring</range id="418021706_9"> attending classes. And of course, if you want to know more than others and approve your possibilities, you won’t need waiting 18 year age to <range type="comment" id="418021706_10">graduate school education</range id="418021706_10">.

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">In conclusion, I think there is evidence to suggest that some of the pupils <range type="comment" id="418021706_11">who are really want to graduate school earlier</range id="418021706_11"> and deserve it should have this opportunity. But overall, it is clear that most of these people have a great potential to realize and it’s dangerous to limit them. <range type="comment" id="418021706_12">Nevertheless, I do not exclude a case when the people being in so big hurry in their lives won’t be able to state normal relationships with others people.</range id="418021706_12">


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Some people believe that art, music and sport are not necessary for schoolchildren and these subjects should be replaced by Information Technology, Math and so on. Our society is unlikely to be<range type="comment" id="418376414_1"> a </range id="418376414_1">knowledge one and education in the field of exact sciences is required in many<range type="comment" id="418376414_2"> sphere</range id="418376414_2"> of economics. But I absolutely disagree with the idea of reduction <range type="comment" id="418376414_3">of ancillary subjects.</range id="418376414_3">

Firstly, all school subjects form some part of person. For example, <range type="comment" id="418376414_5">study of language help individual</range id="418376414_5"> to understand other people, math assists in developing mental ability. In regard to art, this subject enables to develop imagination, to see our world in other colors.

<range type="comment" id="418621060_2">The next argue against of decrease of ancillary lessons </range id="418621060_2">is that children have to understand that <range type="comment" id="418621060_3">our life is combination of material side and non-material one</range id="418621060_3">. If we deprive our pupils of opportunity to hear such composers as Mozart, Bach<range type="comment" id="418621060_4"> and so on </range id="418621060_4"><range type="comment" id="418621060_5">we enable to appear a generation without intangible assets, these people will think only about material side of their life.</range id="418621060_5">

Finally, I would like to write that art, music and sport<range type="comment" id="418621060_6"> is discipline and diligence</range id="418621060_6">. As we well know, <range type="comment" id="418621060_7">all kind of sport has some rules and if person want to go in for sports, he or she must be diligent and disciplined.</range id="418621060_7">

In conclusion, I want to underline that <range type="comment" id="418621060_8">ancillary subjects are a necessary part of school education, without such subjects as music, sport and ar</range id="418621060_8">t schoolchildren will be limited in their developing and they cannot understand all sides of life.

Elena Volontyrets9

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 * Essay by Andrey Shevtsov**

//**Subjects such as Art, Sport and Music should be dropped from the school curriculum for subjects such as Information Technology.**//

The question whether Art, Sport and Music classes should be excluded from the list of mandatory school subjects have raised rather heated debates in past months. I personally think that it would be beneficial to make them conditionally optional. The first argument that could be made in favour of the proposal is based on the idea that art subjects should be swapped with those that tend to prove to be more useful for students in their adult life, fox example, a better computer knowledge is required to live in the modern society. <range type="comment" id="418722992_1">Furthermore another reason</range id="418722992_1"> that could enhance this argument is the fact that many people may consider time spent in school on art or even sport classes as time wasted and therefore doubt that it had any positive effect on them. Another argument that could be made is that society <range type="comment" id="418722992_2">could save money and time being spent on mandatory arts and sports teaching.</range id="418722992_2"> <range type="comment" id="418722992_3">However </range id="418722992_3">there are people who feel that removing Art and Music from the school curriculum <range type="comment" id="418722992_4">in long term</range id="418722992_4"> might cause a substantial decrease in people creativity. And other people are of opinion that making Sport optional would have a drastic negative effect on the <range type="comment" id="418722992_5">healthiness of the nation</range id="418722992_5">. Another compelling reason for not banishing these subjects from school is the undeniable fact that a proper education is required for gifted athletes and actors <range type="comment" id="418722992_6">to fully develop their full potential.</range id="418722992_6"> Coming to conclusion I would like to emphasize that the subject is quite delicate. <range type="comment" id="418722992_7">I myself</range id="418722992_7"> would like to take the middle ground and<range type="comment" id="418722992_8"> suggest to make</range id="418722992_8"> the subjects in question optional with an additional requirement of choosing at least one of them as it would not rob us of talented artistic and athletic people and in the same time<range type="comment" id="418722992_9"> allow to repurpose</range id="418722992_9"> a portion of the time children spend in school.


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 * Essay by Andrey Beketov **


 * Subjects such as Art, Sport and Music should be dropped from the school curriculum for subjects such as Information Technology. **** Do you agree with the statement? **

There is dispute whether our government should <range type="comment" id="418763178_1">close </range id="418763178_1">such subjects at school as Art, Sport and Music for increasing <range type="comment" id="418763178_2">the amount </range id="418763178_2">of subjects such as Math or Information Technology. I think that our schools must have Art, Sports and Music lessons for several reasons. On the one hand, let us try to think why it is good for schoolchildren<range type="comment" id="418763178_3"> have</range id="418763178_3"> these lessons. First of all, such subjects like Art and Music help to develop <range type="comment" id="418763178_4">imagination. Sport helps</range id="418763178_4"> to improve physical abilities of young people.<range type="comment" id="418763178_5"> It is no doubt that these abilities are really necessary for all of people.</range id="418763178_5"> Secondly, if out schools do not have lessons of Art, Sport and Music our society will not have artists, sportsmen and musician. <range type="comment" id="418763178_6">So, our society will lose a big part of creativity. </range id="418763178_6">Thirdly, I think that each pupil must have opportunity to develop all his or her <range type="comment" id="418763178_7">skills</range id="418763178_7"> at school. If our government excludes several subjects from school curriculum our children will have less <range type="comment" id="418763178_8">opportunity</range id="418763178_8"> for their full education. On the other hand, several reasons exist why government <range type="comment" id="418763178_9">may exclude these three subjects</range id="418763178_9">. The first point is that our pupils <range type="comment" id="418763178_10">will have more classes such as Information Technology, Physics and Math if school closes other subjects.</range id="418763178_10"> The second point is that schoolchildren potentially will have <range type="comment" id="418763178_11">more free time if they don’t have subject such as Music, Art and Sport.</range id="418763178_11"> So, in conclusion, I believe that our government<range type="comment" id="418763178_12"> shouldn’t close such subjects a</range id="418763178_12">s Art, Music and Sport for increasing the amount of classes for other subjects such as Information Technology <range type="comment" id="418763178_13">according to reasons</range id="418763178_13"> which I mentioned above. It should be emphasized that several compromises potentially <range type="comment" id="418763178_14">could be created.</range id="418763178_14"> One of them is the idea that subjects like Art, Sport and Music can be optional courses for pupils at school.


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 * Essay by Vladimir Ignatiev**

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **// Do you agree with the statement? //**
 * //<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Subjects such as Art, Sport and Music should be dropped from the school curriculum for subjects such as Information Technology. //**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif;"><range type="comment" id="418798682_1">There is a common mind to remove</range id="418798682_1"> subjects like Art, Sport and Music from the school program for subjects such as Information Technology. Modern society requires people to be trained in all spheres of life and according to this I think that there are several reasons to remain Arts and Sports in the school curriculum. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif;">First of all, there is no doubt <range type="comment" id="418798682_2">that subjects</range id="418798682_2"> as Music and Art help young people to develop their creativity and<range type="comment" id="418798682_3"> social parts.</range id="418798682_3"> <range type="comment" id="418798682_4">This is the best way of liberating emotions on such creative lessons.</range id="418798682_4"> Furthermore, even if you decided to connect your future work with a field of science, <range type="comment" id="418798682_5">you will excel at this sphere without communication skills.</range id="418798682_5"> <range type="comment" id="418798682_6">For instant</range id="418798682_6">, y<range type="comment" id="418798682_7">ou cannot avoid public presentations and debates with other scientists arguing you position.</range id="418798682_7"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Finally, for growing strong and healthy young people should have an opportunity for regular stress relieving in circumstances of<range type="comment" id="418798682_8"> hard education process.</range id="418798682_8"> For example, <range type="comment" id="418798682_9">Sports has a good</range id="418798682_9"> effect<range type="comment" id="418798682_10"> on people mood and physical state.</range id="418798682_10"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">In conclusion, <span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif;">I totally disagree with this statement because I believe that <range type="comment" id="418798682_11">more opportunities of self-cultivation are done </range id="418798682_11">for young people <range type="comment" id="418798682_12">more achievements they will be able to reach in their grown lives.</range id="418798682_12"> Many years of human history shows that Arts, Sports and Music can the best company for Technology and Science. Unfortunately, this is not obvious for some people.


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//** My sincere apologies. Inna Lobanova **//

 * Essay by Inna Lobanova **


 * Subjects such as Art, Sport and Music should be dropped from the school curriculum for subjects such as Information Technology. **** Do you agree with the statement? **

We have entered the digital era that requires more advanced technical knowledge. Despite this no one can state that classical and physical education <range type="comment" id="418809514_1">lost</range id="418809514_1"> their importance and should be abandoned. This is a complex issue and my belief is that both positions are worth considering. <range type="comment" id="420328616_1">There a couple of arguments</range id="420328616_1"> that can be made in favor of studying humanities and <range type="comment" id="420328616_2">do training.</range id="420328616_2"> <range type="comment" id="420328616_3">First of almost</range id="420328616_3"> people believe that dancing and drawing allows children to evolve their imagination, improve coordination and teach them to be creative. <range type="comment" id="420328616_4">For example</range id="420328616_4"> there was carried out <range type="comment" id="420328616_5">a research proved</range id="420328616_5"> that individuals who were taught a choreography obtained<range type="comment" id="420328616_6"> flexible both body and mind</range id="420328616_6"> <range type="comment" id="420328616_7">in compare with</range id="420328616_7"> common pupils. Another reason that can be made is the doubtless fact that doing exercises and playing games at school are very good for health. Moreover such activities as volleyball, basketball, football and baseball teach students to work <range type="comment" id="420328616_8">in team</range id="420328616_8">. It is obviously will help them in future life. <range type="comment" id="420328616_9">On the other hand information technologies change rapidly</range id="420328616_9">. It is impossible to argue with the point that keeping pace with progress involves people into non-stop learning and self-improvement. It is evident that young generation pick up features of informatics and computer science much quicker than adults. This is why it is essential<range type="comment" id="420328616_10"> to tutor these materials</range id="420328616_10"> starting from secondary school. But overall it is clear that narrow and unilateral schooling leads to imperfection. It is urgent to keep<range type="comment" id="420328616_11"> disciplines i</range id="420328616_11">n harmonious balance to make learning relaxing and engaging for young people<range type="comment" id="420328616_12"> along with them being </range id="420328616_12">healthy and obtaining perfect and full background.


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**Essay by Konstantin Kudritskiy. Check it please. I am very sorry about my out of time. I just come from work))) Thank You anyway!**

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**// Do you agree with the statement? //** Many people think that nowadays subjects such as Art, Sport and Music are superfluous in the school curriculum and subjects such as Information Technology should be more frequent. Modern life requires from peolpe a lot of defferent skiils especially in Information Technology sphere but <range type="comment" id="420330926_1">we do not forget</range id="420330926_1"> about skills such as Sport ant Music. On the one hand, it is very good to study only several skills which you prefer more. You do not spend a lot of time for 'unnecessary' subjects and you can concentrate on your main goal. An adittional point is that it is very hard to imagine modern society without Information Technology. It is everywhere around us. So you must understand main ideas of this area. A funther point is that the job <range type="comment" id="420330926_2">connecting wit</range id="420330926_2">h IT nowadays is well-paid <range type="comment" id="420330926_3">on average count, instead of </range id="420330926_3">Sport, Art and Music. If you want <range type="comment" id="420330926_4">to be a rich</range id="420330926_4"> you should be a genius <range type="comment" id="420330926_5">in thats areas</range id="420330926_5">. On the other hand, what about you health and outlook, creativity? <range type="comment" id="420330926_6">Without it</range id="420330926_6"> you would be just a 'good' specialist with bad health. For example, you can not survive at <range type="comment" id="420330926_7">a hard stress work if you will not have a stong health. </range id="420330926_7">Another example is that the only topic you can talk about is your work. <range type="comment" id="420330926_8">You are not intrested for </range id="420330926_8">people in everyday life. In conclusion, I think that in our country subjects such Art, Sport,Music will remain in the school curriculum. And our goverment <range type="comment" id="420330926_9">will found another solutions </range id="420330926_9">for this problem. <range type="comment" id="420330926_10">One of them is</range id="420330926_10"> a lot of free special cources in the different topics of study.
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 * Kostyuchenko Nadezhda. ** **I am very sorry about my out of time. I read about the time requiment a few time ago.**

As recent proposals to replace subjects such as Art, Sport and Music with more modern ones such as Information Technology are becoming stronger a more intense discussion about these subjects is rising. Might IT be more important in digital era than an integral part of classic education?

At the first glace benefits of studying courses that bring modern technologies to the classroom seem overwhelming. Modern lifestyle is tightly integrated with information technologies. A large number of tasks are now performed with the aid of computers. The share of occupations that require familiarity with IT is growing every day. Some even consider that people not familiar with IT would be treated <range type="comment" id="420340812_1">as illiterate have been treated in the past.</range id="420340812_1">

<range type="comment" id="420340812_2">On the other had</range id="420340812_2"> Art and Music are still an important part of cultural development of students. It also should be noted that while basic knowledge about IT is often learned from friends and improved by the internet, only a small portion of students would bother to study basics of arts and music from the same sources. Information technologies do not change the core of required knowledge, but modify a current set of tools and school education should be more concerned with core knowledge than with rapidly changing tools. <range type="comment" id="420340812_3">A proposition to replace Sports, the only subject that is beneficial for health of the students,<range type="comment" id="420340812_4"> with looking into monitors </range id="420340812_4">is also not a good idea.</range id="420340812_3">

Considering this arguments I disagree with <range type="comment" id="420340812_5">stated propositions.</range id="420340812_5"> School curriculum should be based around more fundamental subjects than Information Technology.


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