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The school is a place where we gain new knowledge and life-long skills. Although discipline is important, I disagree that school should be a place of discipline.

Firstly, school should be a place of fundamental education and not a place of discipline as having fun and being creative is the best way to learn. Too much discipline would stifle students' imagination. Being able to think out of the box, students might be able to discover their potential in themselves. Also, it encourages students to be more outspoken and confident of themselves. In addition, they would also focus better on learning without worrying whether their hair or uniforms are in the right place.

Secondly, disciplinary actions are getting more strict. Be it verbal scoldings or physical actions, it will definitely affect the student one way or another. An ideal studying environment should not be like this at all. It might pressurize a student and might cause a student to be afraid and therefore play truant.

However, on the other hand teens these days are getting more rebellious. They are also easily affected by peer pressure and are also easily influenced by everybody around them. They might pick up bad habits and perhaps choose the wrong path in life. To add on, some parents are too busy with work to discipline their children and eventually neglect them. At such a young age, some students are not able to think for themselves yet. If parents and the school do not discipline their students, no one would be able to guide the students at this age.

Also, imagine if the school would to be a place with no discipline at all. There would be disrespectful, rowdy and disruptive students. They would disrupt lessons and also be defiant towards teachers. Profanities would be abused by students and fights would definitely happen. How would foreigners think of Singapore's schools?

As such, school should consist of discipline and also fun and creative learning. However, schools should not focus on discipline too much but instead focus on nurturing students into capable leaders of the future.

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