Monday, October 19, 2009

For Year 11 (Batch 2011): Ms. BETSY's TOEFL task: Independent Writing (deadline Oct. 20, 2009)

Hi, Brilliant class year 11,
here is Ms. Betsy's task of independent writing, with the assignment of topic no. 20 (See the Official ETS iBT TOEFL, 2009). Please write your answer in the COMMENT field for Tuesday morning printing.

Also take a look at your photos during last Friday, Oct 16, 2009 Cambridge Biology experiment/practice at PENABUR International Jakarta with Brilliant Class 12th graders, planning to take the test next Oct. 22, 2009. Here is the link:

http://www.bpkpenabur.or.id/id/node/5457

SIR

18 comments:

loren said...

It is better for children to grow up in the countryside than in a big city, for some reasons like socialization, health, and mental emotion.

Firstly, children who grow up in the countryside will be better in socialization than children who grow up in a big city. In the countryside, most of kids will play with other kids there in their playtime. They will be good in socialization, because they are use to socialize with other people. Let us see the children who grow up in big city. Most of them will play by their own self in their playtime, like playing play station, computer games, etc. that make them not use to socialize.

Secondly, children who grow up in countryside are more health than children who grow up in a big city. Like things that described in the paragraph before, most of kids in the countryside will play with other kids. They will play games that is also include sport, that will make them sweating. But kids in big city, who just play in front of monitors, will be lack of doing sports.

Thirdly, children who grow up in countryside will have better mental emotion than children who grow up in a big city. In a big city, bullying in kids is more often than in the countryside. Bullying will make children stress and make them be sullen kids.

In conclusion, it is better for children to grow up in the countryside than in a big city, because downtown kids is better in socialization, more healthy, and have better mental emotion than uptown kids.

Laurensia M.A.
XI BC/11

Billy.S said...

It is better for children to grow up in a big city than grow up in the village. It is because that in a big city, of course, the technology is better than in the village seeing many smart people go to city to study or get a job. Those smart people may modernize the technology in the city.

Because of the modernizing, there are many advantages that children could use to improve their live skills and facilitating children’s life. With technology, you may know how the world’s condition is at the moment, you may get the best medical treatment when the medical technology already improved, you might do your jobs easier because the help of technology, you also could taste some new delicious food because the improvement of technology of chemistry, get more educational programs from television and internet, can socialize with people around the world.

To live in the big city since the children are still young is the best choice, because children may adapt with technology so when they grown up, they already used to live with technology around them, and may use the technology as efficient as possible. So the life’s quality might be improved as the technology improved.

In addition, in a big city, the chance to get a job is bigger than in the countryside. Also, when you get the job, many of the job’s salary in big city is bigger than when you work in the countryside. Many people said that working in the countryside is harder and more tiring than working in the big city, so, it’s better to work in the city rather than countryside.

In conclusion, living in a big city is better than the countryside for the sake of children’s life, so children’s life could be improved and could be useful for others and for the country.

~Billy Sugiarto~
~XI-BC~
~02~

avv said...

Countryside or big city??

I don’t agree that children will be better to be grown up in countryside rather than big city. There are several reasons for my statements such as their preparation to the future, socialization with modernization, and educational reasons.

To begin with, children are grown up to prepare for their future. Maturity is important in this case. They need preparation for their future. Most of people who are able succeed in their life are those who are able to be mature and able to adapt with the environment they are belong to. In fact, almost all big companies are located in big cities, not in countryside.

In this case, children are better to be grown up in big city. As I said before, they should be able to adapt with the environment for their future. Why don’t we let them adapting their selves from they were small? This would be a better idea to let them grow in big city so that they could prepare their selves for the future life.

Moreover, socialization, which is also part that contribute for someone success, is playing an important role in peoples’ life. Big cities are eventually getting new information and technology faster than what countryside could get. If a person is not able to adapt with newer technology which could make jobs easier, how would they compete with those people who are excel in implementing those technology? Modernization in personal and group are important in able to sustain in modern era like what we have right now.

In addition, educational is one of the qualifications to get a success life nowadays. Most people with higher educational background could get job easier than those people who are only high school graduated. I do not say that countryside’s education is bad, but I would like to highlight that as modernization in big cities is a bit faster than those happened in countryside, educational system in big cities is adapting newer system which we could say that is more efficient and better than those conventional system adapted in countryside. Big cities are also provide more educational institutions than those in countryside which means that a person is getting bigger chance to get higher educational background.

In conclusion, while countryside’s life offers comfortable environment to live, big cities offers bright future for those children live in it. So, we could say that growing children up in big city is better than in countryside.

[L]eon-[z] said...

It is better for children to grow up in countryside than in big city. Do you agree or disagree? Use specific reasons and examples to develop your essay.

I agree that it is better for children to grow up in countryside than in big city. Three reasons that I will state in this writing are competence, health, and their ability to be autonomous.

We know that it is not easy to live in the countryside. Living in big town is easier that in countryside because that everything you need is "already there" for you to use. You just need to pay for the item and you will get it. In countryside, instead of buying the items, we obtain the items by ourselves. This circumstance train the children in countryside to sharpen their ability in order to obtain the items that they need. For instance; in the counstryside, the children climb trees just to get a basket of fruits, but the children in big town just ask their parents to buy them fruits. In the end, the ability of the children of the big city will be dull and useless.

Connected to my first reason, the second one is about their health. The countryside children are always active, and that will help the children to maintain their health in good condition. In the contrary, big city children are usually sick because they spent almost eighty percent of their time playing indoor. Playing indoor without moving or sweating will make their antibody weaker and cannot do their proper work.

My last reason is that big city children are usually spoiled kids. Their parents always fulfill their wishes. Different from the countryside children, they are forced by the condition of their place that they must fulfill their own wishes and wants. They usually create items using their imaginations and used items around them. Also, to fulfill their needs, they sometimes do it themselves. Those are the problems that they must face, and those problems will make them autonomous.

To sum up all of the three reasons, Children are better to grow in the countryside than in the big city.

Leonard A.W.
XI BC/12

Sam said...

I agree that it is better for children to grow up in the countryside than in a big city. It is because the healthy lifestyle that countryside gives. It is also because the bond of relationship in the countryside. Besides, it is safer to be in the countryside rather than in the city. And the last is because of the food given in the countryside is usually healthier than in the city.

First of all, I am going to explain why the lifestyle in the countryside gives healthier lifestyle than in the city. Let’s take a look the air condition in the city, where cars, trucks, and motorbikes passing from one place to another place more frequently than the countryside. In the countryside, only few people drives car, moreover, most cities in the world have industrial zone inside it, which is making air pollution. We know that pollution is not healthy. That is why the countryside must be having less pollution than the city that makes the lifestyle in the countryside healthier.

The next reason why living in the countryside is better than living in the city is because the bond of relationship that is made in countryside is better than in the city. We can see, in the countryside, children always help and want always to be in their parent’s side. Every day they talk each other, share some life experiences, and do something together. In the other hand, the children who live in a city will hardly see their parents, because their parents are working, and get home late. The children do not have tight relationship with their parents. That is why the relationship in the countryside is better than in a city.

Moreover, living in the countryside can provide more safety to their children. The children in the city will not come out from their house as frequently as the countryside children. It does so because in the city, vehicles go everywhere, which will make a great damage to the children if an accident happens, beside that, in the countryside, the children can go anywhere they want peacefully, even the attention of the parents still needed. But the overall said that living in the countryside is safer for children because countryside has lower risk of accident than in a city.

The last reason is the food. The food in the city usually has worse quality than in the countryside. This is caused because the food in the city commonly junk foods. As we see, everywhere is McD, KFC, and the others like that. If we take a look in the countryside, everyone is eating their own traditional food, which must be better than the city’s food. So, in conclusion, the food in the countryside is better than in the city.

In conclusion, after looking at all of this, I conclude that living in the countryside must be better than living in the city.

Samuel Radja

Homework
Toefl book page 217, no. 20.

Evan said...

The Independent Writing Topics Page. 217 No. 20:
“It is better for children to grow up in the countryside than in the big city. Do you agree or disagree? Use specific reasons and examples to develop your essay.”

I agree that growing up in countryside is better than big city because of various reasons, some of them are health, development, and social life.
The first issue, the health issue is the most important in early years in childhood because they can breath cleaner and fresher air is countryside than polluting, dusty, and foul smell of the big city by exhaust pipe in vehicles, garbage, of fume from burned toxic thing. The children also can live in quieter, more harmonious life than fast-paced life in city. Those who pass childhood in great health will have less chance to many diseases and faster healing rate than those who live in city due to not enough preparations against disease in childhood.
Second, is their body, and mind development. They can train their motoric skill by playing with another kids, and free to roam around the house with little anxiety of traffic accident. In countryside the society is more openhearted than in the city, thus they will help each other and have many community group event. These action will help children to learn the society and laws around them. On the other hand, children in the city have more percentages their household will having problems such as divorce, drugs, violence, and others. Those actions will inhibit their development, making most of them pessimistic, bad attitudes, and worst of all, became the criminal in society
Last is their social life. This aspect is important in how people interact to each other. From above, warm society will teach children how they will behave in every condition possible in positive way. It will make them more attractive, have good personalities, attitudes, and many others. They will have many friends, able to think positively in every situation, and have more chance to achieve their dreams. In the city life, life is hard. It will push the children to their limit, often more than they can handle, if they can survive, they will not have any pride to face the future, making then frustrated, desperate, and last commit suicide

Anonymous said...

Grow up process in children’s life is the most important thing in human’s life and in this grow up process, place where they grow is important. I agree that is better for children to grow up in countryside than in a big city. There are some factors make countryside better than a big city for grow up process of children such as health and stamina and social relation.

Health and stamina that children got from grow up in countryside is different if they live in a big city. People know that children grow up in countryside have better health and stamina than children living in a big city. It is because in countryside, they lack of motor vehicle such as cars and motorcycles so they have to walk or cycling along the road. Even some of them do not have bicycle so they have to go anywhere by feet. It is very tiring but this make the children have better health and stamina than children living in a big city with a lot of motor vehicle which make them rarely walking to some places.

The other reason that make living in countryside is better is the social relation with the other people. In countryside, there is no many people live there and they have to walk or doing something together to achieve their goal such as farming, playing, or another else which make them more easily to know each other and with these, they can communicate well rather than living in a big city where there are a lot of people with a lot of house and vehicle that make even neighbors sometimes cannot know each other.

So the conclusion is for the children, living in the countryside is better than living in a big city for their grow up process.

HaTe said...

Grow up process in children’s life is the most important thing in human’s life and in this grow up process, place where they grow is important. I agree that is better for children to grow up in countryside than in a big city. There are some factors make countryside better than a big city for grow up process of children such as health and stamina and social relation.

Health and stamina that children got from grow up in countryside is different if they live in a big city. People know that children grow up in countryside have better health and stamina than children living in a big city. It is because in countryside, they lack of motor vehicle such as cars and motorcycles so they have to walk or cycling along the road. Even some of them do not have bicycle so they have to go anywhere by feet. It is very tiring but this make the children have better health and stamina than children living in a big city with a lot of motor vehicle which make them rarely walking to some places.

The other reason that make living in countryside is better is the social relation with the other people. In countryside, there is no many people live there and they have to walk or doing something together to achieve their goal such as farming, playing, or another else which make them more easily to know each other and with these, they can communicate well rather than living in a big city where there are a lot of people with a lot of house and vehicle that make even neighbors sometimes cannot know each other.

So the conclusion is for the children, living in the countryside is better than living in a big city for their grow up process.

-Hans Tannady-
-XI.BC / 5-

p.s. : sorry Sir forget to attach my name in the previous one..

james_liman said...

Big or side?

Many people agree with a statement say “It is better for children to grow up in the countryside than in a big city.” According to my opinion, that is wrong because of four reasons, which are slow to update technology, there is no good education, less chance to get good job, and you cannot interact with other people from other nations.

Firstly, as all of us know, in the countryside, the technology is not developed well. So the children cannot get much information about the technology out from his countryside. In the other hand, in a big city, many children study everything from technology for example internet, television, and so on. That is why so many children that grow in the countryside face culture shock when they know technology out there.

Secondly, there is no good education in the countryside, while in a big city, there are many. A film called “Laskar Pelangi” (Rainbow Soldier), it narrates about a group of students that hardly find ordinary school and in the end of film they continue study in a big city. The film illustrates us that in a big city you can get a good school easier than in the countryside. While the education is one of vital components which are determine your life quality.

Thirdly, many people in the countryside migrate to a big city, in the purpose of searching good job because they can’t find a good job in the countryside. In the fact, many investors build their industries in a big city. Industries can absorb thousands of people to get a job. It is better than if you live in the countryside.

Fourthly, in a big city, you can easily interact with people from other nations. In the countryside, mostly there is no other person from other nations. For example, you can easily find native in a big city rather than in the countryside. From interact with other people from other nations; you can get much useful information that you do not know before.

In the conclusion, I prefer to choose children better grow up in a big city than in countryside.

James Liman
-jl-
XI Brilliant Class (07)

Johan said...

Writing assignment
By : Johan Chrisnata
Class : XI – BC – 08
SMAK Penabur Gading Serpong

Topic :
It is better for children to grow up in the countryside than in a big city. Do you agree or disagree? Use specific reasons and examples to develop your essay.


It is not better for kids to grow up in the countryside than in a big city. By living in a big city, we can learn about technology and informatics faster than we can learn in the countryside. On the other hand, it is very hard for children to make a progress in education in countryside while the connection between the other countries is unreachable. Furthermore, the socialization in big city is wider and more various than in a small country. Many people believe that by growing up our children in countryside will make them autonomous and do not depend on other people, but actually children do not have to grow up in countryside to be autonomous.


By living in a big city, children can express themselves by what we want to do. There are so many complete and good facilities that are served for us, we just have to use them properly. Furthermore, the technology and informatics in big country always better than countryside because of the structural goverment and rules. They are not encircled with the restrictiveness of technology to make something creative. For instance, my friend who is a smart boy in countryside can not expand his ability in many competitions because of the restrictiveness in good teachers and fund, while in big country, he must have been taught well.


On the other hand, the connection and transportation in small country are very definite, so it will inhibit the information among another countries. Children will not be aware of the hot new or stuff that is happening in this world, so it is hard for villagers to make a progress in education. For example, I get newspapers everyday which is my source of knowledge, different story with a child in countryside who does not know anything about news because of the unreachable place. My preparation for future is better than his preparation.


Furthermore, there are more friends in big country than friends in small country, so children can meet more various types, characteristics, and background from all over children in this city than children can meet in countryside. The more we make friends, the better the socialization we will make, because we can learn how to face every kind of person with different characters.


People said that we children be autonomous by growing up in countryside because they will struggle and survive for themselves, but actually we as parents can also teach children who grow in big country how life is so difficult. To be autonomous, children do not have to live in countryside, they can live in dormitory or far from parents if we want and give them extra treatment about life and socialization. It will be much more better for children to get both autonomous and technology.


For conclusion, it is better for children to grow up in big country because of the complete source of information that we can get , availability of facilities and easy of transportation and connection. Children do not have to live in countryside to be autonomous, it actually depends on how their parents treat them.

Kevin said...

I disagree with the statement: “It is better for children to grow up in the countryside than in big city.” I think it is better for children to live in city rather than in the countryside because of the education, socialization, and technology.


First of all, children who live in big cities have a better education. It is because most of all prestigious school and universities are located in big cities. In big cities, they also have more opportunities to get scholarships and awards. So, in the future they can have better life from the skill they have learned in the school.


Secondly, children who grow in big cities will be more socialized, because big cities that more cultural richness rather than in the countryside. So, the children will meet people from different religion, country, and even race. This will not only help children in learning more about people, but also to improve their communication skills as well. This way, these children will grow up to be good speakers who will face no problems in terms of communication in the future.


The last one is technology. Big cities are more modern than countryside. It will be more convenient living in big cities rather than in the countryside. Children who grow in big cities will have wider mind rather than in the countryside. They can see many things that they might not see in the countryside. For example, the development of technology and telecommunication usually takes place in city. If children are familiar with these things, they can adapt easily in the global development and modernization.


In conclusion, although growing in big cities have more risks, like air pollution and negative influence, it is still better for children to grow in big cities because children will have wider range of knowledge, connection between friends, and helped with technology.

Anonymous said...

Is it better for the children to grow up in the countryside than in the big city ?

There are many opinions that people give for this question, and no one can decide whether the first opinion is right while the others are wrong. People who grow up in the big city might say that it is better to grow up in the big city, while people who grow up in the countryside might say the opposite.
Firstly, people might say to themselves that the place they live is certainly a nice place, but deep inside their hearts they keep asking themselves the question “ what is it feel to live out there?”. The people from big city don’t have any idea what is it like to be in the countryside, so they think that the safest place for their child is the big city. I think that big city and countryside have both negative and positive points. Children who grow up in the big city will adapt themselves with modern technology and facilities but they might end up being lazy kid with bad behaviour. From another side, children who grow up in the countryside will have a good behaviour, but they will have to keep their live with conservative way rather than modern way.
In my opinion, I think that it is better for the children to grow up in the countryside rather than in the big city, because I think good behaviour is the most important we should have, while the modern way will be easier to learn than changing your true behaviour from bad to good.
In conclusion, there is no right or wrong about statement anybody give for this question, but for myself I think that countryside is the better place for the children to grow up because the children from countryside only have to adapt themselves with modern technology while children from the big city have to change their bad behaviour.

Viciano lee
XI BC

AHFEJ RK-253 said...

There are several factors that parents must consider when they are raising their children. One of those factors is about the environment where they grow. Some group believe that it is better for children to grow and spend their childhood in a clean and peaceful place like countryside rather than in a crowded and noisy place such as a big city. Personally, I don’t think that is a great idea. In my point of view, I prefer raising my children in a big city to raising them in countryside.

Compared to countryside, big city provides bigger chance to acquire better education facility. It is obvious since we have already know that big city is the place where everything gathered and become one complicated network, hence it would not very hard to find a school that offer the best teacher and promising school facility that will support children’s learning activities at the school. It is different from countryside school that only provides a drop of facilities, which perhaps just do not want the countryside children suffering the blind of knowledge, but do not provide the best teacher for the students.

Furthermore, we also can be sure that big city will offer the better health facility, such as hospital and big clinic. This fact is inevitable because people prefer working in promising place like big city to dedicating their life to work in countryside, including doctors. From this reason it can be concluded that big city give the children a better chance of having a better health treatment.

Finally, the last reason why I agree to raise children in a big city is the advance of technology. Nowadays, we can see the technology is improved very fast in daily life. Honestly, I do not wish that my children will become old-fashioned people, who are technology illiterate people, hence I hope that by live in big city the children will learn how to take advantage from this amazing technology for good purpose.

To be concluded, having children grow in big city would be better than in countryside.

Felik Junvianto / XI-BC / 4

fransiska said...

I don’t agree that it is better for children to grow up in the countryside than in a big city.

To begin with, children who live in a big city will get better education than who live in the countryside. Teachers in a big city are more competent than teachers in the countryside because the requirement to be teacher in a big city is more difficult than to be teacher in the countryside. Not only because teachers, children in a big city also can get better education because there are some equipment can contribute learning activity, such as anatomy model in a biology laboratory.

Secondly, children who live in a big can learn to use modern technology from early. They usually can use computer or internet from them in a kindergarten. Almost all of families in a big city have computer and internet. It can help children to learn something new or just to help them to use modern technology, such as, playing simple games in a computer. Modern technology and news is faster in spread to big city than to the countryside.

Moreover, in a big city, people can get brighten future. So, it is good for children to grow up in a big city. Usually, children in a big city has bigger dream than children who live in the countryside. Children usually has dream bigger than something they see. So, if the children can see something awesome, they usually have dream bigger than it. Because of that, I can say that children in a big city are usually has bigger dream. They usually motivated by the environment where they live. People in a big city also always busy so children who grow up in a big city will adapt to work seriously. Teacher in a big city also taught their student to be enthusiasm when they do their work.

In addition, there are a lot of job in a big city that you can not find in the countryside. Many investors build their industries in a big city. In a big city, children are easier to learn about international country. They can learn about international language, international culture and so on.

In conclusion, according to some reason above, I can say that it is better for children to grow up in a big city than in the countryside.

- Lilie Fransiska(13)

Joses said...

Joses Grady Nathanael
XI-BC / 09

"It is better for children to grow up in the countryside than in a big city"

For new couples, it is hard to choose where they will grow up their babies. They are usually confused whether they will move to the countryside, where the condition is still natural or they choose big cities, the place that has modern technologies and easier access to important places. In my point of view, it is better for children to grow up in the countryside than in a big city. There are several reasons that I consider, they are the surrounding’s atmosphere, the natural place to be studied, and the healthier place.

To begin with, the condition in countryside supports children better to study and get more knowledge. Inasmuch as there are only a few of vehicles in the countryside, the atmosphere will not disturb the life in that place, like the studying process, daily activities, etc. When the children learn at the school, they will concentrate in the lessons without the noise from outside. Although there are several sounds, especially sounds of singing birds, or another animal, the sound will not annoy the lessons. Besides, the natural voices will improve the children’s spirit to study.

Secondly, the life in countryside is really still natural. There are a lot of objects to be studied, for example, animals in barnyard, plants in farms, and other natural life. Without being known, they have a large amount of knowledge if we want to search and dig all of the information from them. We can get fresh water, and then we examine the composition of it to find the better place to get fresh water. Or we can get some examples of soil there and also check it. There are a lot of activities and researches that we can do in the countryside.

Lastly, the air in the countryside has not been contaminated with smokes, poisoned gas, fumes, dust and dirt. It is still fresh and refreshing our minds when we breathe. The air is still clear and we can look at the long distance. Nothing blocks us to see the beauty of nature or the sunset and sunrise. Also, the important reason is this fresh air will make us healthy, the air without the agent that cause lethal diseases for example cancer.

To sum up, children, who are in the growing and developing period, should live in the countryside. To feel the nature, its beauty, its soothing air, and healthy living are important for them so that they will be the next generations who are healthy and love nature. They can protect and save our nature from devastation.

Anonymous said...

Children should live in the big city rather than live in the countryside. If children live in Country, there are some negative sides, such as minimal facility, children will get less experience, and less friends.

First of all, the facilities in the countryside are not as complete as in big cities. Therefore, they need big cities that have complete facilities to help them in learning, do their hobbies, and do more fun. For example: in the countryside that don’t have field to play football or basketball they cannot play football or basketball but in the big cities that have the field they can develop their talent in basketball and football.

Furthermore, in the countryside they only can do several things, such as: go to school, farming, gardening, etc. But in the big cities that have complete facilities they can do a lot more things, such as: go to library, go to fitness center, etc. So they will get more experiences about life skill. And it is very useful for their future.

Moreover, in countryside that don’t have much places to go, children don’t have many choices to socialize. In big cities, there are many places such as: mall, fitness center, library and in those places they can make new friends. So in big cities they will have more friends rather than in the countryside.

In conclusion, it will be better if children live in the big cities than in the countryside. Because in big cities, there are many facilities that will help them develop their talent. In the big cities, they also will get more experience and more friends.

natasiayosua said...

Do you agree or disagree with the statement “it is better for children to grow in the countryside than in a big city." ?
In Natasia Yosua Yahya's point of view.


At the present time big cities are broadening together with the limitation of the countryside areas. The numbers of transmigrating people, including children, are increasing each year. We have known from many sources such as television, radio, internet, etc, that many children in big cities, especially in Indonesia, are starving and working hard to fulfill their needs. So that is why many people suggest the government to send the children back to their hometown at the countryside to assure them getting their happy childhood life. That is what most people think, but I strongly disagree with that for at least three reasons.

First, there are many things can be done by the government besides sending them back to their hometown such as providing the scholarships for them to obtain more knowledge. We all know that big cities have more high-quality schools and teachers than countryside. So that, someday when this program are really actualized, it will be able to not only decrease the numbers of illiterate people, but also increase the numbers of high-quality workers in purpose to improve our own nation, Indonesia.

Second, many people transmigrate from the countryside to the big city for the reason to get job opportunity and a better living. But in fact, most of the transmigrating people do not get any job and become tramps. The only one reason for that is that they are not ready for it. Countryside children are popular with their artlessness. With that character they have, they would not be ready to face the sophisticated big city life. In contrast, the children who were grown in the big city have been adapted with the big city life-style and of course been more successful than the countryside children.

Third, as the world has been globally modernized, governments all over the world have been focusing their expenditure on the country development such as the transportation constructing and the condominium building, and “forgetting” the countryside poor children for a while. They reduce the value of fund which are planned to be given to the countryside people and for this situation, the future of the countryside children will be worse than before.

To sum up, the children who are grown in a big city will have a brighter future because of the better facilities big city have and a stronger character they got.


SMAK Penabur Gading Serpong
19.10.09

patriciajonatan said...

People who are grown in the big city tend to think that spending childhood at the countryside might be better than living at the town. Well, this kind of thought is pretty logical, since the country has got much more fresh air, wider space for children to spend time, and so on. But the truth is, nowadays living in a big city provides more advantages.

First, the education. For me, education is one major necessity that has to be fulfilled as ideal as possible and it is very clear to see that big city got more advanced education facilities. More space for education spots like laboratories, libraries, and schools. Moreover, because a big city holds more people, more educated and smart teachers are likely to teach at my child’s school. In the countryside where less people and facilities are built, maybe my child would have to travel miles away just to get to school. It is just pretty much inefficient.

Second, I consider country children’s activities as dangerous. They play around in the jungle or sometimes make them unsafe rafts and sail by themselves to the sea. These acts are too dangerous for children. Having wider space for children to play is not bad, but a very broad area is too much to cover by parents, so the children may travel to hazardous places without adult’s supervising.

Third, children can meet their needs easier in town. If they want decent shoes to wear, the can just go buy a pair at the mall. If they are hungry, a 24/7 grocery stores are available at almost every street. Live is just much more efficient, so children can concentrate sharpen their skills or finish their study.
In conclusion, raising children in the countryside is not better, especially for safety, education, and efficiency’s sake.

patriciajonatan