A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college.
Today, some students graduate from high school unable to understand, let alone manage, the basics of their savings and financial matters because they lacked a proper math education during their high school years. Others still have graduated from high school while facing serious problems in writing and communication. The statement claims that all students should take the same national curriculum until they enter college. I agree with the statement for several reasons.
First, a national curriculum would ensure that all high school students have a similar level of preparation for college and for starting their career in the job market. We no longer would have to worry about our students not having an adequate enough math or language preparation as they come out of high school. This is because the national curriculum would have provided them with the math and language skills required for college or the job market. South Korea epitomizes how a national curriculum can help high school students. South Korea imposes a strict national curriculum on all high school students. As result, 99% of South Korean students graduate from high school while being qualified for admission into high ranking universities all over the world. Therefore, a national curriculum would prepare our students for study and job opportunities.
Nonetheless, we must also acknowledge that a national curriculum might limit the students' creativity and autonomy in choosing to study the subjects they are most interested in learning about. Definitely, not all students would want to be engineers or medical physicians. And, I absolutely agree that students need to be given some freedom in selecting and pursuing the subjects that they are most passionate about. But, I do not think that we need to choose between mandating a national curriculum and respecting the students' autonomy. The reason is that a national curriculum need not be a comprehensive one, taking all of our students' study time.
I would argue for a national curriculum that only requires a minimum amount of competence in math and language as to prepare students for dealing with the basic math involved in managing their personal finances, but, at the same time, leaves students with enough time to pursue other subjects - such as arts, philosophy, and sociology. As such, students would graduate from high school while not only able to discern the mathematics involved in moving forward with their career, but also having explored different subjects that might be of interest to them, enabling them to make an informed decision regarding their college finances and major.
To conclude, I argued that a national curriculum is necessary to build the math and language skills that students need to succeed, but that such a curriculum should also allow students to pursue other subjects according to their preferences.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 293, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ith enough time to pursue other subjects such as arts, philosophy, and sociology....
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'if', 'nonetheless', 'regarding', 'so', 'still', 'therefore', 'while', 'as to', 'such as']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.236220472441 0.238963963785 99% => OK
Verbs: 0.161417322835 0.154291517835 105% => OK
Adjectives: 0.102362204724 0.0886310499679 115% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0393700787402 0.0506014161523 78% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0511811023622 0.0449626384858 114% => OK
Prepositions: 0.125984251969 0.123526278965 102% => OK
Participles: 0.0551181102362 0.0379742944744 145% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.77148468554 2.82910677849 98% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0314960629921 0.0316879551592 99% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0014075125626 0% => More particles wanted.
Determiners: 0.0846456692913 0.0950106342287 89% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0275590551181 0.0245489744465 112% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00393700787402 0.0157978311181 25% => More subClauses wanted starting by 'Which, Who, whom, Whose, That.....'
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2896.0 2899.98275862 100% => OK
No of words: 458.0 478.390804598 96% => OK
Chars per words: 6.3231441048 6.0591788892 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62611441266 4.65681771538 99% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.412663755459 0.369966551584 112% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.314410480349 0.285172536893 110% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.25327510917 0.207245337619 122% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.124454148472 0.136322040163 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77148468554 2.82910677849 98% => OK
Unique words: 210.0 234.298850575 90% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.458515283843 0.492565540709 93% => OK
Word variations: 51.1433095921 56.8184620615 90% => OK
How many sentences: 19.0 21.1264367816 90% => OK
Sentence length: 24.1052631579 23.7468607788 102% => OK
Sentence length SD: 75.9907050738 62.0618507366 122% => OK
Chars per sentence: 152.421052632 143.81877709 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.1052631579 23.7468607788 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.631578947368 0.728815259664 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.87931034483 102% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.71264367816 13% => OK
Readability: 55.5463111928 52.2641144681 106% => OK
Elegance: 1.65625 1.64547068916 101% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.381907036923 0.39480681544 97% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.157319143352 0.11556216369 136% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0997957022791 0.0736162880345 136% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.567368055094 0.531340600358 107% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.169671572781 0.15197228837 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.163328619426 0.158818324754 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.105341284294 0.0851127212816 124% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.380976493249 0.388921930462 98% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0425873386073 0.0677916285025 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.25265978323 0.28015025965 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0389772075076 0.0610219844235 64% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.8591954023 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.30459770115 113% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.96264367816 60% => OK
Positive topic words: 9.0 8.10632183908 111% => OK
Negative topic words: 5.0 3.93390804598 127% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 3.04597701149 98% => OK
Total topic words: 17.0 15.0862068966 113% => OK
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Rates: 58.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay E-rater: 3.5 Out of 6