A nation should require all its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college rather than allow schools in different parts of the nation to determine which academic courses to offer.
I fully disagree with the statement that a nation should require all of it's students to study the same national curriculum till they enter college.
I believe that every student should be allowed to follow his or her interests of study during all points of their academic career, and this is my primary motivation in taking the above mentioned position. We live in a free society, and if we are to ensure that every one is able to take advantage of the same, they need to have education of the right kind. This implies that they must be allowed to select what they want to study, and a national curriculum must not be enforced on them. For example, look at the case of a student who is keen on arts. While he needs to have fundamental knowledge of science and mathematics, there is no need for him to be taught the same till he enters college. The student will not be able to devote enough time to the topics of their interest, and they will fail to attain their best potential in the field. Had this extra time that was spent on science and mathematics been used in furthering his arts skills, he would have realized his potential better.
Another important reason for me to take my stand is the copious amount of resources that are spent on a student for teaching him subjects (or topics) that he would sparsely or never use. Eductional resources such are teachers, books and other materials are very expensive, and creating and devoting the same for students who would not make use of this knowledge is a waste of such resources. For example, look at the case of a student who is very keen on pursuing sports as his career interest. The hours spent in teaching him STEM subjects, or biology, or advanced high school language courses is not best utilized. This includes a wastage of teachers' time, which is better utilized on other students with matching career objectives, and the educational materials (including investments on preparing them). It is better to utilize sports resources to better equip him in the career path of his choice.
Mental conditioning is another important reason why I think having a common national curriculum till college is a poor idea. Students who are taught a particular set of materials is conditioned to think in a particular manner, reducing their horizon of thought and crippling their ability to express thoughts. This results in a society that can be controlled by the whims of particular sections or the government itself. Imagine a situation in which the ruling government decides to eliminate all material from the curriculum that goes against it's agenda. If all the students were learning this curriculum, they would all be conditioned to think in the manner the government wants to. This would lead to a crippled society where freedom of expression and free thoughts would have no value. Instead, if students were allowed to freely learn the topics of their interest, chances of such a situation happening can be drastically reduced.
I would like to conculde my reiterating my arguments. Restrictions on individual (student) freedom, resource wastage and possibility of mental conditioning with a negative intent are the reasons why all students of a nation should not be required to study the same curriculum till they enter college.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 114, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, look, so, while, for example, i think
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.5258426966 164% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 61.0 33.0505617978 185% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 79.0 58.6224719101 135% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2728.0 2235.4752809 122% => OK
No of words: 561.0 442.535393258 127% => OK
Chars per words: 4.86274509804 5.05705443957 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.86676880123 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67808924612 2.79657885939 96% => OK
Unique words: 253.0 215.323595506 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.450980392157 0.4932671777 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 856.8 704.065955056 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 8.0 1.77640449438 450% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 0.0 4.38483146067 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.5192764265 60.3974514979 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.608695652 118.986275619 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.3913043478 23.4991977007 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.78260869565 5.21951772744 34% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.255999863871 0.243740707755 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0773220580265 0.0831039109588 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.107093933634 0.0758088955206 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.210346009486 0.150359130593 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.143120705533 0.0667264976115 214% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 14.1392134831 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.8420337079 114% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.2 12.1639044944 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.23 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 100.480337079 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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