Persuasive Essay Against Mandatory Grade 12

Annie is not ready to see the bomb explode. She has been skirting around the battlefield that others call “grade twelve” for the past year, and now, her fighting is about to pay off. She bites her tongue and hesitates to point the gun once she sees the flashing number “one” on the screen. She was not ready for this war, but she has to fight, or else her peers would consider her a fallen comrade. All of the science lessons, the math tests, and the late-night study sessions have paved a path to this moment. So, with a deep breath in and the push of a trigger— Annie is one of the many students in Ontario who are anticipating university admissions letters. Every year, thousands of unprepared high school seniors, like Annie, are jolted out of their comfortable childhoods as they are suddenly enlisted into the adult army. Many of those high school seniors, like Annie, are not prepared to risk their lives in a war. A mandatory grade thirteen would breed a greater variety of well-adjusted young adults. In Ontario, success during Grade twelve is necessarily if a student wants to go to university. Aside from collecting prerequisites for grade twelve courses, none of the other grades …show more content…
In the dark, she blindly wiggles her free arm in an attempt to find an opening. She hears the confused shouting of her comrades. They must have also been caught off guard by the explosion, but the familiar voices give Annie hope. Suddenly, light pours into Annie’s eyes and she blinks in surprise. All she sees above is the endless blue sky. So many possibilities await her now that she has survived. Still, despite some of her peers avoiding the explosion entirely, while others lie wounded, they all share the same look on their faces: utter confusion. None of them had prepared for this moment. Violence was not the best way to approach this shared enemy. If only they had learned how to defuse a bomb in Advanced