A nation should require all its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college
The speaker suggests a nation should require its students to study a national curriculum until they enter college.
I agree with the speaker in as much there are no hidden opinion from the government for implementing this policy. It is noteworthy that studying a uniform curriculum in elementary school gives the colleges a foundational confidence about the performance of the students result from elementary school. Take for instance, if the cut off for a particular course in a college is set to be 80%, any student that doesn't perform to that extent will be regarded not fit to study the course.
More so, the government can use this policy to groom her students in the way they want the economy to grow. Take for instance, a nation short of business oriented students in a particular country, government could easily implement this policy and make it compulsory for students to engage in such curriculum. E.g adding business administration, economics, finance, marketing to the curriculum at early stage to sharpen the orientation of the students at earlier stage.
However, the purpose of implementing a national curriculum could be defeated by the aim itself. when there is a national curriculum, the purpose of learning some certain things about culture might be impeded. take for instance, if a national curriculum is implemented in Nigeria, it will be costly for individual states as the history and heritage of such state will be diminishing because there will not be room for students to be involved in indigenous learning about culture, history and heritage of such state.
On the other hand, I can find the policy specious because a trait of nepotism might set in. there is a possibility that the government is advocating for such policy based a link the government have with one sector or the other. an example that comes to mind is Osun state, Nigeria. In 2011 after the election, the state government made it compulsory for all students across the state to be putting on same uniform. More so, these uniforms were produced by someone related to the people in power even at higher price. this is a means of extortion.
I also find this detrimental in the sense that, there might be some elementary schools that have super capability to make their curriculum robust. However, government policy might impede their capability. Take for instance, a school like Olashore college, Osun state, Nigeria that is making sports activities one of the very important part of the curriculum and this school also have the facilities. Compared to St.John grammar school that is running 8a.m-2P.m curriculum without any extra curriculum activities. Considering a uniform curriculum will thwart Olashore's vision and mission.
In summary, a uniform curriculum will be fine if there is no specious and nepotism act as the baseline of it. However, I believe in flexibility of curriculum so as to promote freedom even among students. who knows, a student might fall in love with one part of the curriculum at tender age but if the curriculum is rigid, it might cause a great impediment for creativity.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, so, as to, for instance, in summary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 14.8657303371 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 33.0505617978 100% => OK
Preposition: 69.0 58.6224719101 118% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 12.9106741573 147% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2589.0 2235.4752809 116% => OK
No of words: 514.0 442.535393258 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03696498054 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.76146701107 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83425110095 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 244.0 215.323595506 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.474708171206 0.4932671777 96% => OK
syllable_count: 852.3 704.065955056 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 10.0 4.99550561798 200% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.532946479 60.3974514979 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.875 118.986275619 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4166666667 23.4991977007 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.25 5.21951772744 62% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 4.97078651685 141% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 8.0 7.80617977528 102% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.83258426966 186% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.27373617023 0.243740707755 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0816365252799 0.0831039109588 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.134294554099 0.0758088955206 177% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.185584671343 0.150359130593 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.207495149657 0.0667264976115 311% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 14.1392134831 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.8420337079 85% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 12.1639044944 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.9 8.38706741573 94% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 100.480337079 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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