"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 claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position
Students enter secondary school at a time of critical development and maturation. The prompt recommends that a nation should require all students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college. In my opinion, I mostly disagree with this recommendation and argue that implementing a national curriculum may cause more harm than good for two reasons.
Implementing a national curriculum may be advantagious in order to ensure that all students are receiving the same level and quality of education. Different locations may differ in socio-economic status. For instance, some students living in a more impoverished location may be forced to attend schools that were unable to fund proper training for teachers. Alternatively, students in middle to high-class neighbourhoods are to attend schools with competent and well-trained teachers. This example demonstrates that employing a national curriculum will ensure that the quality of education is equal among all students, regardless of socio-economic status.
However, the dangers of employing a national curriculum outweigh the advantages. A national curriculum determined by the nation itself can lead to a spread of propaganda among the influential minds of young students. For instance, a nation in favour of a political party may allocate more time educating students about their favoured party, addressing only the benevolent while neglecting the malevolent history of events. Moreover, the curriculum may include minimum or completely remove all material of the party in which the nation does not support. This example illustrates that employing a national curriculum may be detrimental to students' quality of education. A curriculum decided by a nation may exploit students and manipulatve their perspectives in a way that aligns with the nation.
In addition, adopting a national curriculum may thwart student's knowlege capacities. If every student is taught the exact same curriculum throughout a whole nation, then this would limit the potential for knowledge gained through social interaction. Take for instance if a certain nations curriculum only educated students on the cultures of Canadian, American, and African American decent. Students of the nation who interact with each other will all be informed of these cultures. However, none of them will be aware of other cultures such as Chinese or Indian decent. As a result, in the midst of their social interactions, they are incapable of correcting the other's on naive or narrow-minded comments, and unable to educating each other on additional cultural backgrounds. This example illustrates the importance of diversity in a nation, as knowledge is also gained through social interactions. That being said, implementing a national curriculum may damage diversity and potential for knowledge among students.
To employ a national curriculum or to not is a complicated question to ask. As noted above there are indeed benefits that may come from it. However, there are also plenty of disadvantages that may arise from limiting diversity of knowledge. That being said, my position remains the same.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 282, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'nations'' or 'nation's'?
Suggestion: nations'; nation's
...raction. Take for instance if a certain nations curriculum only educated students on th...
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Line 7, column 384, Rule ID: CONFUSION_OF_DECENT_DESCENT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'descent'?
Suggestion: descent
...anadian, American, and African American decent. Students of the nation who interact wi...
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Message: Did you mean 'descent'?
Suggestion: descent
...ther cultures such as Chinese or Indian decent. As a result, in the midst of their soc...
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Line 9, column 77, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...o not is a complicated question to ask. As noted above there are indeed benefits t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, may, moreover, second, so, then, well, while, for instance, in addition, such as, as a result, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 33.0505617978 88% => OK
Preposition: 65.0 58.6224719101 111% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2662.0 2235.4752809 119% => OK
No of words: 478.0 442.535393258 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.5690376569 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.67581127817 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.12133610778 2.79657885939 112% => OK
Unique words: 231.0 215.323595506 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.483263598326 0.4932671777 98% => OK
syllable_count: 851.4 704.065955056 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.3390512683 60.3974514979 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.384615385 118.986275619 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.3846153846 23.4991977007 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.88461538462 5.21951772744 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.307395165595 0.243740707755 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101274513994 0.0831039109588 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0795805156137 0.0758088955206 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.191808525582 0.150359130593 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0742064912173 0.0667264976115 111% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 14.1392134831 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.28 48.8420337079 74% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.03 12.1639044944 124% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.72 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 127.0 100.480337079 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => 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.