* Real test problem: Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? People in the past ate foods which are better for their health than people at present.
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*Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Classmates have more influences on a child’s success in school than parents do. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Child’s success in school is affected by a vareity of factors. Some people asserts that parents have more influences on a child’s success than classmates do since parents support children materially and psychologically to encourage them to perform well in school. However, I agree with the statement that classmate have more influences on a child’s success in school than parents do because children spend more time with their classmates, relationship among friends affect children’s performance in school, and teenagers tend to listen to their friends rather than their parents. One reason why classmates are more influential to children’s performance in school than parents is that children spend most of their time with classmates when attending classes. The time that children are with their parents seems long since children stay longer in their home than school. Nevertheless, students have less hours to communiate or interact with their parents since the number that both parents have jobs has increased sharply in Korea. On the other hand, in the case of classmates, they listen to same classes under same teachers in same classrooms. Therefore, other classmates’ performances and behaviors in classes directly affect childrens’s success in school. For example, classmates who are noisy and do not concentrate on classes can disturb children when listening classes and eventually affect their performances. Another reason why classmates have more influences on children’s performacnes than parent do is that friend relationship can affect largely on childrens’ feeling and behavior. When children have best friends who they like much, they are haapy to go to school. However, when children are struggling with their friends, they do not want to go to school and feel depressed even when listenting classes. There is more possibility that children who are excluded from their classmate perform badly since their classmates pick on them by saying bad words, and hitting them. Lastly, teenagers tend to follow their classmates’ advices than their parents’. Since classmates are in same age unlike parents, classmates tend to know well about childrens’ feeling and problems. Therefore, when giving some advices, classmates are more persuasive than parents. Classmates tend to tell children not to do something in good words compared to parents who always command children not to do. In addition, children tend to listen more to their classmates since they want to be closer to their friends and lose their friends. Teenager smokers can be an example of this, since most of them start smoking not to lose their friends according to the survey. In conclusion, I agree with the statement that classmates have more influences on a child’s success in school than parents do. Children spend more substantial time with their classmates and are affected by their relationships with their friends. Additionally, children tend to listen carefully to what their classmates say about than their parents. Since classmates have significant influences on children, parents should be aware that their children have good friends in order to make their children successful.