066 Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Classmates are a more important influence than parents on a child's success in school. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
During one’s whole life, a person will meet and live with a lot of people, such as one’s parents, brothers, classmates, colleagues, bosses, and so on. Some people hold the opinion that classmates are a more important influence than parents on a child’s success in school. Other people disagreed with that. As far as I am concerned, I strongly support the statement because of the following two main reasons: competence and time.
Different competences come in different results. Young child is emulative and competes with his classmates in all fields, from study to sport, entertainment to family, etc. If his classmates pay more attention to the skill to win some computer game, he will try his best to beat them and be good at it. On the contrary, if they focus on the sport ability, he probably will be stronger. When I was a child, my classmates appreciated the grade. In order to get more A, I studied very hard and successfully passed the college entrance examination in the later. But my little brother failed to become a university student, but a good climber instead, because his children classmates like to compete to climb mountains and trees.
The more time you lived with one, the more you were alike with that one. Staying with his family only at night, a child student comes along with his classmates all the day. He will obviously be influenced more by his classmates than his parents. Take me as an example, I lived in the school and only came home at summer vacation and winter vacation. The rest of the year I all studied and played with my classmates. So they had influenced me more than my parents when I attended the school.
Although the child is guided to do things by his parents at home, they have less time to do so. And the child is more likely to do things appreciated by his mates. So when a child goes to school, it is his classmates, not his parents, affect him more.
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