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 the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position

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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 the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.

By requiring its students to study the same national curriculum until college, a nation can ensure its students' holistic development and a basic national competency. However, since individual students have their own talents and motivations, forcing them to focus on the exact same curriculum may not be the best way to hone their particular skills. That is why I believe that this recommendation, despite having the right general spirit, is too restrictive and requires modification.

The recommendation in its current form has its benefits since it ensure students have a basic understanding of a broad range of subjects. Some amount of formal education in maths and science is crucial to ensure citizens are able to navigate their daily finances, evaluate studies published in media, and comprehend and follow government directives in a crisis. For example, with the current covid-19 pandemic, a school-level understanding of biology is highly beneficial in preventing panic while ensuring citizens take necessary precautions. Thus, a nation needs to guarantee that their students gain this understanding by imposing a national curriculum.

However, some may argue, what about subjects like languages or arts? Should nations force students to study these as part of the national curriculum as well? It is well established that using your brain for a variety of skills ensures maximal brain development, especially at a young age, so it is crucial that these classes be taken by all students. Additionally, it is impossible to predict what skills will become most useful for the students in their future. Perhaps their future jobs as doctors or engineers will later be performed by artificial intelligences and machines, and their employability will instead come from their foreign language skills. Given our increasing life-spans and fast paced societies, flexibility and a ranged skill set is critical to secure future success.

Finally, what about a student who is exceptional at one of their subjects. Should they be limited by the bounds of the national curriculum? Here is where I believe the recommendation falls short, because such students should be provided additional classes or avenues to hone their particular skills and go beyond the basics.

Thus, I believe the national curriculum should be imposed by the nation as the base or minimum that students need to learn, but certain electives or extra classes must be left free for students to develop their talents. This modified recommendation will ensure that students benefit from a broad knowledge base while still being able to focus on their particular strengths. It will also ensure that the country's citizens are prepared to critically consume and respond to media and government directives in times of crisis.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, may, so, still, thus, well, while, for example

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 33.0505617978 124% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 52.0 58.6224719101 89% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2357.0 2235.4752809 105% => OK
No of words: 438.0 442.535393258 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.38127853881 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57476223824 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96875386484 2.79657885939 106% => OK
Unique words: 235.0 215.323595506 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.536529680365 0.4932671777 109% => OK
syllable_count: 737.1 704.065955056 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.213628951 60.3974514979 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.052631579 118.986275619 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0526315789 23.4991977007 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.15789473684 5.21951772744 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.215583122647 0.243740707755 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0798266785749 0.0831039109588 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0892306070173 0.0758088955206 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.137023633547 0.150359130593 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0418175686369 0.0667264976115 63% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 14.1392134831 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.8420337079 81% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.22 12.1639044944 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.0 8.38706741573 107% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 100.480337079 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 11.8971910112 130% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 11.7820224719 136% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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