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

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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.

The argument states that all students of the same nation should study the same curriculm set by the nation until college. I would like to disagree with the proponents of this argument as there multiple fallacies to it with the major flaw being the narrow scope of knowledge that comes with fixed curriculum.

Firstly, I'd like to point out that each student has a distinct set of interests and aspirations with which they would want to move ahead with in life. Setting a fixed curriculum would narrow down and limit the extent to which a information is available to the student. If a child is interested in Biology but the curriculum of the subject only explains concept to a certain extent, since Biology is a compulsory subject and the curriculum has to cater to every child's limits, there is restriction on course offerings. Whereas if there was a choice of subjects, people who don't like the subject could have opted out. And since there are only students who hold interest in the subject, the course offerings for the subject could be broadened.

Likewise, a student who doesn't hold any interest in a particular subject would be less enthused to study for it and would probably face difficulty studying it. This would lead to lesser grades or perhaps a negative impact on the student's life. Drawing on my own experience, I would like to say that this holds to true to large extent. I have always been interested in computers and I had a fixed subject called mechanics in my curriculum. My interest and knowledge on the subject were very limited and since thus studying for it was a huge burdensome task for me. I had to invest in much more time to clarify concepts and when I still ended up getting average grades, my morale took a huge downfall. This impacted my day to day behaviour too.

Additionally, subjects like painting, music and sports are generally not paid much heed and are defined as extra-curricular. This means that when there is a fixed and same course listings for everyone, these subjects would not be given much attention. So students who excel in these subjects and would like to imagine a future in it would be overlooked and more recognition would be paid to other subjects like maths and science. For example, if a child excels in basketball and since there would no grading system for physicals, the child's talent is lost on report cards and no college would acknowledge him/her. This could greatly impact the child's future in a negative way and we won't know whom to hold responsible.

Parallelly, the proponents of an argument would say that knowledge in all subjects is necessary and would mold a student's future overall. I would agree to this statement, but only to an extent. I agree that having basic knowledge in all arenas is a great flex but that is it, we only require it to be basic. It doesn't have to be too deep or doesn't have to critically graded on. On the same lines, what we could actually plan out is having the same curriculum only till a fixed class/grade. For example students can choose their own courses after a specific grade which would ideally be the 9th grade or freshmen year in school. This would clear out a lot of things and would provide best of both arguments.

In essence, I would like to draw on the fact that making such decisions go out to be a little extreme. Passing out judgement without doing proper reseach would lead to erraneous results and the lives impacted would be multiple. We could draw out the positives from both sides and come half way in making perfect decisions for the future of our nation.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, firstly, if, likewise, look, so, still, thus, whereas, as to, for example

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 29.0 12.4196629213 234% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 28.0 14.8657303371 188% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.3162921348 168% => OK
Pronoun: 51.0 33.0505617978 154% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 94.0 58.6224719101 160% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2958.0 2235.4752809 132% => OK
No of words: 632.0 442.535393258 143% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.68037974684 5.05705443957 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.01394158123 4.55969084622 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56128027079 2.79657885939 92% => OK
Unique words: 287.0 215.323595506 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.454113924051 0.4932671777 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 923.4 704.065955056 131% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 18.0 6.24550561798 288% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.2370786517 143% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.3198998794 60.3974514979 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.0 118.986275619 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7931034483 23.4991977007 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.27586206897 5.21951772744 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 7.80617977528 115% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.13622336342 0.243740707755 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0430829918832 0.0831039109588 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0723485590763 0.0758088955206 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0885503871628 0.150359130593 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0685796935895 0.0667264976115 103% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.5 14.1392134831 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.8420337079 120% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.86 12.1639044944 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.88 8.38706741573 94% => OK
difficult_words: 128.0 100.480337079 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => 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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