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People may say that school online doesn't affect friendships.
Counterclaim
Adequate
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On the contrary, they are extremely wrong because you wouldn't be able to see them everyday as you normally do during the school day.
Rebuttal
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Some people say that taking school online or with video cameras is beneficial. However, they are incorrect because it would be easy to cheat and students would face isolation from their friends. Cheating would be readily available as you don't have the teachers eyes on you which makes it easier to cheat, no matter how ...
Concluding Statement
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Allowing students to attend classes from home by way of online or video conferencing would be beneficial for students
Position
Adequate
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because it would allow them to not have additional school days at the end of the year due to weather
Claim
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allow them to not fall behind on work due to an illness or family situation.
Claim
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By offering distance learning as an option for students to attend classes from home, they'll be able to continue their learning while not having to worry about falling behind or having to attend school later into the summer.
Claim
Effective
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Many states in the United States get snow on a yearly basis, and as much as students love snow days, sometimes they can hinder a student's learning progress by preventing them from being able to travel to school safely.
Claim
Effective
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Many states have a law saying that if too many days of school are canceled due to inclement weather, school days will unfortunately have to be added onto the end of the school year, so students can complete their education for that year. This can cause problems for many students as they might have a summer vacation alr...
Evidence
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Distance learning by way of online or video conferencing is also beneficial to students because it'll allow them to stay on track with school work and not fall behind due to an illness or family situation.
Claim
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There have been countless times where a student has been sick with a serious illness or had a family situation that prevented them from going to school for a week or so. Just missing one day of school causes a student to fall behind on a lot of work, so missing more than a week of school can definitely hinder a student...
Evidence
Effective
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Although a student should rest and recover when they're sick,
Counterclaim
Adequate
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being able to listen in on class could help them have less work in school significantly.
Rebuttal
Adequate
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Another example where distance learning is beneficial for students is when they have a family situation. A student might be out of school for a couple days due to a family situation and could fall behind on work. Being able to go to school online or video conference would help that student stay on track with work and n...
Evidence
Effective
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I understand that online learning might not be beneficial for all students since each student has their own way of learning and that some students might not have the technology for it at home;
Counterclaim
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however, distance learning would be able to get rid of additional school days due to weather and help a student stay on track when they need to miss school.
Rebuttal
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Online learning could also be implemented easily due to the fact that everyone has a chrome book in school, so many schools could install an app on the chrome book that allows for online learning to be possible.
Rebuttal
Adequate
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Although many students would not like online learning,
Counterclaim
Adequate
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I think it would be a beneficial option to implement into the school systems in the long term.
Rebuttal
Effective
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Many students struggle during the school year because of missing school days, whether it's due to weather or due to a family situation, and distance learning would be a great option for those students to be able to stay on track with the school curriculum while missing school. Offering online learning will help a stude...
Concluding Statement
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Have you ever asked someone for advice? I always ask people for advise it makes things a lot easier.
Lead
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When asking for advice seeking more than one opinion can help you make a better choice.
Position
Adequate
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you would want to ask someone who has been through it before,
Claim
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one person might not be good at giving advise as someone else would,
Claim
Effective
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one person might not have your best interest in mind like some others.
Claim
Effective
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For example if you ask one friend they might have not experienced what your talking about, but if you ask another one your chances are higher because you asked more people. I always ask at least two people before making a big decision. If you asked for advise on how to swim you would want to hear from a swimmer not som...
Evidence
Effective
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What happened when you ask a friend for advise and the dont know so they give you almost like a guess? Chances are its not gonna be good. This has happened to me before and resulted in me losing lots of money. If you ask one person then another person ones advise might be better than the other one. So what if you didnt...
Evidence
Adequate
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What if you ask one friend for advice and their mad at the moment and they probably dont have your best interest in mind and you should get another opinion. I try not to ask mad friends for advise when possible. You should ask multiple people because everyone dosent know whats best for you. My parents are the only peo...
Evidence
Effective
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When asking for advice seeking more than one opinion can help you make a better choice. Reasons why are you would want to ask someone who has been through it before, one person might not be good at giving advise as someone else would, and one person might not have your best interest in mind like some others. This is wh...
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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Home schooling, also known as home education, is the education of children at home, it is usally conducted by a parent, tutor, or an online teacher. Many families use less formal ways of home school in North America, whereas "home education" is only used elsewhere. Before the introduction to compulsory, school attendan...
Lead
Adequate
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In many states home education goes on as an alternative to public and private schools.
Claim
Ineffective
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In other nations home schooling is illegal so students have no choice but to attend public or private schools. In the legal states students can be home schooling for many reasons. Some reasons can be like parents not wanting their kids around others while learning. Other reasons can be dealing with being kicked out of ...
Evidence
Adequate
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Being kicked out of school can be good or bad.
Claim
Ineffective
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It can be good for students that don't learn well at school, but bad for those who learn well in school. If kicked out others may need more help and start to cheat on the work and look up answers. Causing them not learn as much as they did back in public schools. So if students know they wouldn't be able to learn well ...
Evidence
Adequate
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I think some students fit in the classroom and others need more help like hands on or close up.
Claim
Adequate
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Disabilities could cause a student to seek help in person with a certified teacher. Not everyone learns the same way so not just everybody can attend classes from home. Everybody learns in their own way.
Evidence
Adequate
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Overall I think home schooling is a good thing.
Position
Adequate
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It can prevent school fights.
Claim
Adequate
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Also prevent skipping and being late to school missing insructional time.
Claim
Adequate
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If I had the choice to home school I would do it. I feel it is a great choice to make. Therefore my stance on this prompt is home school or online classes.           
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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It is alarming to think that less than twenty years ago virtual technology was just being invented, and ever since the turn of the 21st century the world has started to use technology and virtual data more and more. The world has started to trend in a direction in which humans rely on technology. For example, tools lik...
Lead
Effective
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Distance learning gives students a more customized and adaptive learning experience while giving students more time to engage in the extracurriculars they love.
Position
Effective
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One way distance learning is beneficial for students is because it allows students to customize their classes.
Claim
Effective
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For example, Students in the public education system can only enroll in courses that are offered at their school. This may restrict students from taking classes that they are interested in or limit students from branching out and potentially finding a new passion. However, students taking online classes can choose from...
Evidence
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Another benefit to learning from home is that it gives students more time to focus on their needs and wants rather than the schools.
Claim
Effective
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In certain cases when student prodigies are more focused on a sport, a musical instrument or a job, learning from home can grant students more time to perfect their craft. Online learning allows them to have their primary focus being on what they love rather than on a rigorous and time wasting traditional school day. A...
Evidence
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Learning is essential to grow as an individual but also as a population and with new technology, accomadating for certain needs is easy and beneficial. Distance learning is a way for students to customize when and what they want to learn as well as feel comfortable and adapt to their needs. Distance learning is a thing...
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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Having a strong and well education is what is the most important when it comes to any person seeking the knowledge and insight to be able to pursue any career opportunities or other varying professions and lifestyles; furthermore, it is more widely known for students to attend a school and take courses from there
Lead
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Although it may be a better environment for students to go to classes and communicate in real life with their teachers and other peers, It would be more beneficial for students to have the choice to attend classes from home through the use of either online courses or video conferencing.
Position
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Online classes would be a great tool and advantage for those who wants to continue their education because it provides scholars not only to be more efficient and organized
Claim
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but to also help those who are not comfortable in the environment of a school in general.
Claim
Effective
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It is a modern era for both the teacher and the learner, so it is essential for all persons to have the opportunity to continue their education with ease and will.
Evidence
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Without a doubt, it is a necessity for any student to have the skills of efficiency and organization through a means of completing the assignments and work provided to them, for it is what will help them in the near future.
Claim
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Online classes with help because to allows them to take notes or tests in a familiar atmosphere, which will make them more paced and manageable. Being able to do work or assignments at home is favorable because it lets students complete tasks without the need for judgment and pressure a normal, old fashioned institutio...
Evidence
Effective
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Some may say that one would not be able to learn well when only looking at a screen;
Counterclaim
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however, video conferencing allows the student to still be at home, but also learning face to face with their teacher or professor. Having all of your courses laid out with clarity through digital aspects shows that it would be easy for any person to become more organized and efficient though navigating these courses w...
Rebuttal
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Not every person has the same lifestyle as the next, everyone has their own differing personalities and character traits that may or may not clash with others
Evidence
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A comfortable atmosphere for a person seeking to expand their knowledge will be most beneficial because it allows someone who has difficulty in social setting to not feel as if they are being punished for wanting to continue on with schooling.
Claim
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People can be complicated, one may never know what is going on in another's life. Every person is different, no one is the same as the next in any way, shape, or form. Taking classes from home would help eliminate those who are uncomfortable in the environment an everyday school would have, such as those with anti-soci...
Evidence
Effective
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Although school from home would not completely solve these problems
Counterclaim
Adequate
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, it would help prevent conflicts such as bullying. Staying at home with the responsibility to complete work should be desirable for any person wishing to pursue their educative life, no person should feel uncomfortable or in dismay when it comes to wanting to learn.
Rebuttal
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Despite what one may believe when it comes to school, it is essential for anyone to have the opportunity to attend online school from home. Being in the familiarity and comfort of your own home causes beneficial aspects to ones life. It allows them to become more efficient, along with other skills needed to be successf...
Concluding Statement
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Many famous people who became famous for their work of whatever expertise they acquired usually didn't ask for just one specific person's idea. They saw many people's criticism to something that they made, and they improved their idea gradually, such as The Simpsons. When they first made the main characters, it seeme...
Lead
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Multiple opinions from different people is beneficial
Position
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it can provide different perspectives,
Claim
Adequate
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they can help out with problems,
Claim
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they can compliment you on how great it looks.
Claim
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Having many peoples' opinions presents you with different people giving their own taste at what they like and don't like with the idea you have.
Claim
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Not everyone has the same idea for the ideal project that you think of. Each person has a different mind set on what they like and don't like, and what could be added or removed. When it comes to ethnicity and people's income, people can say that the idea is too much money, or that some people might not like something ...
Evidence
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People can point out problems with your idea, and find a way to correct the it.
Claim
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If there is an error or flaw in your idea, they can point it out so your idea won't contain that flaw anymore. An example is the Apple Company that makes a variety of electronics that people. They don't have just one version of the idea that they made; they have many different types of phones, each coming from differen...
Evidence
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You can get many compliments on your idea, producing a good feeling that your idea is great.
Claim
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The more compliments you receive, the more people who say they like the idea. Many famous writers used other people's thoughts to see whether or not their book is good, and they ask for their opinion. An example from me is my favorite series of books: Gone Series. On the front cover of the book, it has one quote from...
Evidence
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It doesn't matter if you have a mistake or two in your idea that was pointed out by someone. What matters most is that you asked people for their opinion, and having the best idea you can have. When you ask people for their opinion, it gives you inspiration, courage, and perseverance to keep on doing your best, because...
Concluding Statement
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Children were told sometime in their life that everybody was unique and different in some sort of way, that there were absolutely no two people that looks the same, much less think and act the same. This applies in everyday life from then and getting advice is not the exception. Everybody has different beliefs, experie...
Lead
Effective
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It's much better to talk to several different people and think about the different possibilities the advice might have to find the perfect solution for the problem.
Position
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different beliefs or prejudice,
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Ineffective
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different experience
Claim
Ineffective
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different ways that we all think.
Claim
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It's no opinion that everybody has different beliefs.
Claim
Adequate
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People fight over their beliefs everyday on the news everyday and people usually become friends with others who has the same beliefs as them. Although beliefs may be factual or wrong, it's what people hold close to and no matter how hard you might try, prejudice is unavoidable with beliefs. As a person giving advice, t...
Evidence
Adequate
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Everybody was born differently, in different situations and in different times. This impacts their experiences, from every moment of their life.
Claim
Effective
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Even if two people go to the same event, they might still have absolutely separate experiences, because everybody might feel different things at different times. For example, if somebody wants advice on a person, two people might totally different and separate experiences with that one person because we don't behave an...
Evidence
Adequate
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Just like beliefs and experiences, they way people thinks is always going to be different.
Claim
Adequate
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An example is the thinking difference between children and adults. How children thinks aren't that mature yet but they can probably think quicker but less effective. Adults could think much slower but overall make the wiser decisions. This can impact advice giving and getting all kinds of point of views can help you so...
Evidence
Adequate
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Getting advice is easier to manage and organize if it's from all kinds of different people. One person giving you advice may impact your problem to be even worse because they might have different beliefs, experience and the way they think may be different. The person who has the problem should be the one deciding, and ...
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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In the vast idea of being right or wrong, an individual can easily be swayed or unsure whether something is just the way they wanted it
Lead
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In this case, and many others, seeking outside advise or help can solve this problem
Position
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Not only can seeking help create a better understanding for the person who was unsure of something
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but it can also relieve stress and anxiety, which is a major component of a decision about to be made
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Also, a further benefit of asking for outside help, is for the well-being of others. If this decision could affect the lives of other individuals, its only common sense to be one hundred and one percent sure before making that decision, and what better way to be one hundred and one percent sure than asking the advice o...
Claim
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Seeking understanding is a huge skill that many don't have and is a skill many should develop.
Claim
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Asking someone a simple question like "Is this good to go?" can truly impact someone's mindset of how to deal with problems, and can give them strong advice of how to handle the problem they currently have. Multiple pieces of advise would make an even bigger impact on a person and give them more understanding of what o...
Evidence
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It has been proven that stress only causes harmful and emotional side effects to individuals. So, why not remove it? That is exactly why simple checks on your work, or something you may be unsure about can make a real impact. As stressful as everyday human lives can be, there's no harm done in taking a little out of y...
Evidence
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The more advice someone has, the more confident that someone can be, and can have less stress going through with that decision.
Claim
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If you live by the motto "Put others before yourself" it is critical to understand that the decision you make could negatively affect others, as well as yourself. An example of this is smoking marijuana. By doing this, you could be causing others to be doing it as well, just because you are doing it. You could be at a ...
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Also, as modern day society is getting bigger and bigger, and people are becoming more reliant on safety, it is extremely important to ensure and provide safety for each individual, and asking for other's advice can ensure you that your decision is safe and responsible.
Claim
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All people strive to do what's right, whether it be doing right toward others, or to yourself. Doing right toward others and yourself doesn't just mean getting good grades or achieving an award, but it means doing the right thing. Asking others for advice can ensure that you are doing right toward others and yourself....
Concluding Statement
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Generic_Name woke up with a churning feeling in her stomach. She still didn't know whether she should cut off her toxic friend Generic_Name or not. She picked up her phone and read the text from Generic_Name. It read, "Hey ugly. You better not wear that hideous green shirt of yours today. I'm wearing my green dress and...
Lead
Adequate
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Seeking multiple opinions can help someone make a better choice
Position
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