Quarter 1
Summer Assignment
Argument Essay
Zachary Burgess
Phillips
AP English
October 7, 2018
One of the biggest opportunities high school students become provided to in North Carolina, is the opportunity to drive. At the age of fourteen and a half, the school provides the chance to enroll in a thirty-hour driver’s education class and twenty-four hours in supervised behind the wheel sessions after school. Although some parents and other drivers may disagree, the time devoted to drivers education should be abbreviated and fallacies in the driver's education system, including a failed testing system, should be corrected to make driver education safe, quick, and effective.
School eats up about twenty-one percent of all high school students weekly time, add in time people spend getting ready for school, and add time for driver’s education and after school activities. That twenty-one percent soon becomes thirty-three percent roughly. One-third of high school students weeks are spent on the school. Think about what someone could do with fifty-six hours of their week. Driver’s education requires thirty-hours of in-class learning. These thirty-hours required becomes an insane amount of time considering all ten modules for the class can be completed and passed in less than 24 hours. Personally, in five out of my ten days required, I have completed more than half of the material in twelve hours and twelve minutes, on pace for completing the course in twenty-four hours. I also hold a ninety-four percent test average and eighty-nine percent quiz average. In driver’s education, students become forced to go at the pace the teacher decides will work. Although this could help certain students, the majority of students soon get ahead of schedule due to the class’ slow pace. Driver’s education classes should not have a required amount of time for students, rather students should be able to work at their own pace and be released if they achieve above an eighty percent on the final exam after completing all ten modules and watching the required videos. Behind the wheel also takes up four hours after school for three days. Other students and I alike may be engaged in other after-school activities and clubs that they need to skip for the ridiculous amount of time required for driving education.
Parents and current drivers alike may disagree with the notion that students should be in a driver’s education class for a shorter amount of time. Although new drivers cannot always be trusted, by changing the testing system and assuring new drivers have a common sense for driving, students can drive sooner than later. Roads these days are not safe, especially for new drivers. By ensuring a good education in classes in a shorter amount of time, we become able to communicate the importance to students. One student that was questioned about Leesville’s driver education, claims that during the final exam he could access other sites to get answers. If students can cheat on a final exam without being caught and going on to get their license, that is a problem that needs to be resolved. The quizzes taken in the class, multiple choice quizzes, can be taken multiple times. The answers and questions are not shuffled, thus allowing students to remember the order of questions and answers. This could allow students to easily try again to achieve a false one hundred on a quiz. These quizzes do not accurately show the knowledge learned from students in the class. Fallacies within the class cause students and parents alike to question the integrity of the driver’s education class.
Although driver’s education provides an amazing opportunity towards students and driving, many problems arise in the current state of the classes including an exaggerated amount of time to attend to and a false testing system. By correcting cheating possibilities on tests and quizzes and decreasing the time to attend to a driver’s education class, but confirming a good and safe education, both students and parents can feel safe and have more freedom. Driving, one of the world’s biggest privileges can be taken for granted by young drivers. By changing the current state of driver’s education, we can help teach the notion that driving is not a right in a concise and effective manner.
ACE Paragraph
Timed Writing
Argument Essay
Zachary Burgess
Phillips
AP English
October 7, 2018
One of the biggest opportunities high school students become provided to in North Carolina, is the opportunity to drive. At the age of fourteen and a half, the school provides the chance to enroll in a thirty-hour driver’s education class and twenty-four hours in supervised behind the wheel sessions after school. Although some parents and other drivers may disagree, the time devoted to drivers education should be abbreviated and fallacies in the driver's education system, including a failed testing system, should be corrected to make driver education safe, quick, and effective.
School eats up about twenty-one percent of all high school students weekly time, add in time people spend getting ready for school, and add time for driver’s education and after school activities. That twenty-one percent soon becomes thirty-three percent roughly. One-third of high school students weeks are spent on the school. Think about what someone could do with fifty-six hours of their week. Driver’s education requires thirty-hours of in-class learning. These thirty-hours required becomes an insane amount of time considering all ten modules for the class can be completed and passed in less than 24 hours. Personally, in five out of my ten days required, I have completed more than half of the material in twelve hours and twelve minutes, on pace for completing the course in twenty-four hours. I also hold a ninety-four percent test average and eighty-nine percent quiz average. In driver’s education, students become forced to go at the pace the teacher decides will work. Although this could help certain students, the majority of students soon get ahead of schedule due to the class’ slow pace. Driver’s education classes should not have a required amount of time for students, rather students should be able to work at their own pace and be released if they achieve above an eighty percent on the final exam after completing all ten modules and watching the required videos. Behind the wheel also takes up four hours after school for three days. Other students and I alike may be engaged in other after-school activities and clubs that they need to skip for the ridiculous amount of time required for driving education.
Parents and current drivers alike may disagree with the notion that students should be in a driver’s education class for a shorter amount of time. Although new drivers cannot always be trusted, by changing the testing system and assuring new drivers have a common sense for driving, students can drive sooner than later. Roads these days are not safe, especially for new drivers. By ensuring a good education in classes in a shorter amount of time, we become able to communicate the importance to students. One student that was questioned about Leesville’s driver education, claims that during the final exam he could access other sites to get answers. If students can cheat on a final exam without being caught and going on to get their license, that is a problem that needs to be resolved. The quizzes taken in the class, multiple choice quizzes, can be taken multiple times. The answers and questions are not shuffled, thus allowing students to remember the order of questions and answers. This could allow students to easily try again to achieve a false one hundred on a quiz. These quizzes do not accurately show the knowledge learned from students in the class. Fallacies within the class cause students and parents alike to question the integrity of the driver’s education class.
Although driver’s education provides an amazing opportunity towards students and driving, many problems arise in the current state of the classes including an exaggerated amount of time to attend to and a false testing system. By correcting cheating possibilities on tests and quizzes and decreasing the time to attend to a driver’s education class, but confirming a good and safe education, both students and parents can feel safe and have more freedom. Driving, one of the world’s biggest privileges can be taken for granted by young drivers. By changing the current state of driver’s education, we can help teach the notion that driving is not a right in a concise and effective manner.
ACE Paragraph
Timed Writing