Summary:
In Appearances Are Destructive, Mark Mathabane shared the experience about dress code of his two sisters. Mark Mathabane argued that he have ever visited some public schools, he knew that his sisters’ experiences are really true. He think that students in school pay more attention to their bodies instead their intelligent and wisdom. They know many name brands but know nothing about their learning. Some teachers are frustrated while they are teaching because their students are ogling themselves in mirrors, combing their hair and even painting their fingernails. The fiercest competition between students and students is very popular in school. Why they attach their important to dress up and pay less time in their learning? The answer is that it can earn them respect from their classmates and will gain high status. They blur their goal and girls may think skimpy dresses and gaudy looks can earn more attraction from boys. So the intelligence and academic excellence is not the most important thing to them. The argument about dress code infringe on freedom of expression is misleading. The author tells that many countries students dress the school uniforms. It can not only let students pay more attention to their leaning but also can let them become neater. It can decrease students’ competition in school. And focus on their learning serious and spend less time dressing up. In the end, Mark Mathabane claimed that it’s time Americans realized the benefit and consider to let their students having dress code in school.
Response:
There are more and more students compete their dressing with each other in school. Because of information technology, students can gain more information from media and they know how to makeup. Although students in nowadays are more attractive than past students, they pay less attention in their learning. They spend their time to find how to become more beautiful and handsome instead learning more knowledge to become wisdom. Few years ago, there was an issue about should students wear uniforms in school? In my opinion, I think students in junior and senior high school should wear uniforms because the most important thing to students is their schoolwork in this stage. If they wanted to show themselves with their fashion styles, they can dress up out of school. And I think there is a benefit for students wearing uniforms, for example, every morning they shouldn’t worry what to wear. And they wouldn’t compare with other classmates because everyone looks same. Some students would do some inconceivable things in class, such as always looking in mirrors, combing their hair and painting their fingernails, I don’t know why they can repeat those things again and again. Maybe they think it’s very boring in class, but I think students doing those things in class just wasting their time. I think intelligence and academic excellence is the most important thing for students and appearance is the next. But it is the best if you could become a wisdom and attractive people.
Why most of student wants to ogle themselves in mirrors, comb their hair and paint their fingernails in the class? No one think about that before forbid them to do that. Is our appearance really important?
回覆刪除When I was a junior and senior high school student, I ask the same question to myself. It is because I think haircut regulations are unequal. I don’t understand why we should do that. I start thinking maybe it is just a tradition that the school want to follow not because it is good for student.
I got one answer while I asked myself in my junior. The school is blind because they didn’t know what the students want. Why can I have long hair and also can get better grades at the same time? It is ridiculous to put those two things in the same situation.
I am a college student now. I know I was wrong, because I am tired of thinking what to wear to school every day. I just want to concentrate on my school work. Unfortunately, I cannot. So here, I want to say sorry to my teacher. I didn’t know that haircut regulations are good for us. Sorry!
In brief, what we should do is to focus on the most important thing in our life or we will regret afterward. Seize the day! The time won’t come back for you.
I can’t agree with you more. There are too many students compete their appearance with other students in school. Nowadays, students can easily get information from the Internet and learn some how to make up themselves. But I think that is wrong for a student to do that thing. What students’ duty is to study hard to improve their knowledge but not spending time on making up themselves. Why does school will set a rule to order students that they should wear uniforms to go to school? Because school does not want their students think which clothes they should wear, and how to use hair styling gel to set their hair well every morning. So in order to solve this problem, the way that school use is to only provide two clothes, uniforms and sportswear and therefore students do not care about what clothes they should wear. So no matter how much information about having a good appearance they gain, that is useless in school. They do not compete with other students because everyone wears same clothes. Just like you say, making up themselves in school and worrying about how to wear before go to school, and that is wasting time. I really agree your thought.
回覆刪除For you summary and response, I would like to give you some of my suggestions. First, try to divide your essay into few paragraphs, and it would be easier for your readers to read through your essay. Second, please use consistent tense to write your summary. Third, avoid writing a fragment; you can combine the sentence that is related to another sentence instead of using “and” as the beginning of a sentence. You make some obvious grammatical mistakes in your summary, so please recheck your grammar before you post on your essay. For you response, please be careful for the phrase using; some of the phrase has its fixed prepositions.
回覆刪除When I see the article, I recall one of the topics we discuss in the speech class. In my opinion, requiring students to wear uniforms can help decrease many problems to teachers and students. For teachers, they can easily recognize the students based on what they wear. It would be easier for teachers to rule their students especially at the time of field trips. For students, they would pay more attention on their study instead of wasting time comparing clothes with another students. Imagine what a mess it would be if the schools do not ask students to wear uniforms. Therefore, wearing uniforms is necessary for students especially those people who are too young to control their thoughts.