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This SAT Writing video on The Well-Rounded Curriculum focuses on the fate of students who take art classes. Sound ominous enough?
Transcript
- 00:02
Okay writing shmoop er's just to maurine this section here
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we go students in school that's what we're going to
- 00:08
analyze here and let's go hunt for it here is
- 00:10
top of the last paragraph The fact is that most
- 00:13
students in school who take art classes are not going
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- 00:16
to be professional musicians painters dancers or actors and boy
- 00:22
is that true So he kind of like rubbing it
- 00:25
in and they end up working here it's much like
- 00:28
meat on never end up bitter and angry about it
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either Just mind you i'm just saying well let's fix
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this thing think about it allowed here to be a
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student You must be in school since we're talking about
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students in their natural habitat school the word students it's
- 00:43
efficient all on its own right Why we have to
- 00:46
say students in school like soon out of school that
- 00:48
doesn't make any sense but it's pretty safe to assume
- 00:50
that students are taking their classes in school saying students
- 00:53
and in school is redundant repetitive and boy noticed how
- 00:56
many problems we've had where redundancy is like the enemy
- 01:00
here So good word to the wise if you think
- 01:02
about all this the same concepts true for students in
- 01:05
academic environments that's repetitive while people is technically fine it's
- 01:10
not specific enough because it could mean people who aren't
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enrolled in school but who happened to be taking art
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classes or some weird thing like that And this sentence
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is specifically about people who are enrolled in school So
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we'll stick with students as our answer Be students in
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school Kids stay in school unless it's really expensive and
- 01:29
you're going to be a carpenter anyway Then just go 00:01:32.025 --> [endTime] to carpentry school about that
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