A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college.
Write a response in which you discuss your views on the policy and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider the possible consequences of implementing the policy and explain how these consequences shape your position.
The issue of whether education should be standardized for the entire country is a contentious one. It is in the government's best interests to ensure its population is literate, and some would argue that having the same national curriculum until college is a way to achieve this. However, in my opinion, I mostly disagree with this sentiment for a number of reasons. There are three main aspects of this issue that must be considered.
First, if the curriculum is the same for the entire country, it becomes easier for the government to get rid of subjects or topics that they believe to harm their political interests. They may modify or simply remove such material, and all schools of the country would have to follow through with this. Consider the edits and changes made in Indian textbooks in 2023: A chapter in the 9th grade science textbook called 'Heredity and Evolution' was edited to remove the topic of evolution, with a rename to 'Heredity'. While proponents of the change argue that such topics have been covered in other chapters, opponents have claimed that the ruling political party did so because of its supposed religious disagreements with Darwin's theory, and that such a measure would fundamentally affect students' ability to think scientifically. This was one of many edits and removals that led many to believe that the government was determined to push its political agenda. In some cases, even history textbooks were changed to exclude riots that were once caused by the current ruling party. Since India has multiple education boards, such decisions did not affect every single student or board. Thus, requiring all students to study a nationalized curriculum could allow governments to abuse their power.
Second, in the case of a more distributed system with different education boards, boards and associated schools would be able to better customize their education for the local student population. In countries with high amounts of language diversity, schools in a non-centralized system could better meet the needs of their students, while appreciating and embracing their own culture. In the case of India, the benefits of such a scheme are visible: Students of Northern states generally study Hindi, English, and an optional third language like Sanskrit, while Southern students study English, a choice between their state language and Hindi, and an optional third language. In this case, a student hailing from the South can study English, Hindi, and, say, Kannada; they can study English and Hindi while not having to sacrifice learning and mastering their own mother tongues.
Finally, one could argue that in a highly varied education system, it would be hard for students who move across the country to adapt to the local curriculum. This is a reasonable concern, but is one that could be addressed in other ways, by perhaps standardizing only a portion of national curriculum to include national languages. Education boards can also take measures to ensure that students in high school are taught a variety of subjects to some minimum level of depth, so as to encourage them to go to college. While changes in environment would be enormous for a student who moves across the country, this does not warrant standardizing the curriculum of a nation.
In conclusion, I mostly disagree with the prompt's claim. The power of a government in changing the contents of a national curriculum are huge, and rewriting history would change the perceptions of young people, whose best interests must be looked after in taking such a decision. Distributed systems could permit students to learn more about their city and state, while also learning about their country and the world. It is important for students to learn and embrace their culture, and a distributed system would greatly help them in doing so.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 493, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
... to remove the topic of evolution, with a rename to Heredity. While proponents of the ch...
^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 677, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
... Hindi, and an optional third language. In this case, a student hailing from the S...
^^
Line 7, column 478, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...ubjects to some minimum level of depth, so as to encourage them to go to college. While ...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, look, may, second, so, third, thus, while, as to, in conclusion, in my opinion, in some cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.4196629213 161% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 45.0 33.0505617978 136% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 88.0 58.6224719101 150% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3216.0 2235.4752809 144% => OK
No of words: 628.0 442.535393258 142% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.12101910828 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.00598923014 4.55969084622 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69779436689 2.79657885939 96% => OK
Unique words: 301.0 215.323595506 140% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.479299363057 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 1000.8 704.065955056 142% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 8.0 1.77640449438 450% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 10.0 4.38483146067 228% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.3317178935 60.3974514979 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.0 118.986275619 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.1666666667 23.4991977007 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.54166666667 5.21951772744 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.147950114944 0.243740707755 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0486540189826 0.0831039109588 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0471263432788 0.0758088955206 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.091587772745 0.150359130593 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.027443249197 0.0667264976115 41% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 14.1392134831 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.72 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 151.0 100.480337079 150% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 493, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
... to remove the topic of evolution, with a rename to Heredity. While proponents of the ch...
^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 677, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
... Hindi, and an optional third language. In this case, a student hailing from the S...
^^
Line 7, column 478, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...ubjects to some minimum level of depth, so as to encourage them to go to college. While ...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, look, may, second, so, third, thus, while, as to, in conclusion, in my opinion, in some cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.4196629213 161% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 45.0 33.0505617978 136% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 88.0 58.6224719101 150% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3216.0 2235.4752809 144% => OK
No of words: 628.0 442.535393258 142% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.12101910828 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.00598923014 4.55969084622 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69779436689 2.79657885939 96% => OK
Unique words: 301.0 215.323595506 140% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.479299363057 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 1000.8 704.065955056 142% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 8.0 1.77640449438 450% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 10.0 4.38483146067 228% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.3317178935 60.3974514979 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.0 118.986275619 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.1666666667 23.4991977007 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.54166666667 5.21951772744 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.147950114944 0.243740707755 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0486540189826 0.0831039109588 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0471263432788 0.0758088955206 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.091587772745 0.150359130593 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.027443249197 0.0667264976115 41% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 14.1392134831 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.72 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 151.0 100.480337079 150% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.