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 statement and explain your reasoning for the position you t

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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 statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.

Having all students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college would be a great tool for nation building and homogeneity of knowledge, however, such a requirement would create a limited society which will hinder the creativity and maximisation of the potentials of those students. The aim of curriculums should be building students as future leaders. A streamlined or enforced curriculum would be inimical to the overall development of students.

Curriculum guides and structures the kind of lectures and learning a student engages in. It is quite important that at the early stage of learning, a child is introduced to as much bodies of knowledge as possible. For instance, in the Nigeria educational system, the primary school does this. All students takes the same subjects and the whole country uses the same curriculum. Hence students learn about Sciences from Basic Science, Arts from Social Studies and Fine Arts, Social Sciences from Home Economics, Quantitative Reasonings from Mathematics. This use of similar curriculum ensures that students are well groomed and possess basic knowledge of almost everything at the early stage of learning.

However, upon the last three years at the secondary school, distictions are made based on individual flair. As an individual, I have flair for sciences and mathematics. It will be counterproductive if I am required to study history and arts. Hence, most schools devise test to identify students strength. Base on the student strength, advices are given on what is best for the student. Ultimately, the choice is left for the child to decide on which fild he would love to focus on. This would achieve more as the child has become the architect of his future.

More So, there is a required body of knowledge that is expected for students to learn within a period of time. Requiring students to study using the same curriculum would overload the students with superfluous knowledge. Valuable time that could be spent on furthering areas of strength and flair would be wasted on other topics. Some might be of the opinion that no knowledge is a waste, this is quite true, however, not all bodies of knowledge are essential and required for development.

A balanced curriculum sits well with me. A curriculum that exposes students to basic body of knowledge while growing up, but at a set time, recognizes the flair and choices of the students. Such a curriculum would achieve more for the students and the society.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 177, Rule ID: MUCH_COUNTABLE[1]
Message: Use 'many' with countable nouns.
Suggestion: many
...f learning, a child is introduced to as much bodies of knowledge as possible. For in...
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Line 3, column 307, Rule ID: AGREEMENT_SENT_START[1]
Message: You should probably use 'take'.
Suggestion: take
... primary school does this. All students takes the same subjects and the whole country...
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Line 3, column 379, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...whole country uses the same curriculum. Hence students learn about Sciences from Basi...
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Line 5, column 507, Rule ID: COMP_THAN[1]
Message: Comparison requires 'than', not 'then' nor 'as'.
Suggestion: than
...ve to focus on. This would achieve more as the child has become the architect of h...
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Line 7, column 96, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...expected for students to learn within a period of time. Requiring students to study using the ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, hence, however, if, second, so, well, while, for instance, kind of

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 33.0505617978 57% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 58.6224719101 90% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2088.0 2235.4752809 93% => OK
No of words: 408.0 442.535393258 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.11764705882 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49433085973 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8256051738 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 215.0 215.323595506 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.526960784314 0.4932671777 107% => OK
syllable_count: 650.7 704.065955056 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 53.0665309849 60.3974514979 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.7826086957 118.986275619 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.7391304348 23.4991977007 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.08695652174 5.21951772744 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.83258426966 207% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.214055883179 0.243740707755 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0641809815541 0.0831039109588 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0617522750812 0.0758088955206 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.129596452023 0.150359130593 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0533769900948 0.0667264976115 80% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 14.1392134831 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 48.8420337079 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.12 12.1639044944 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.31 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 100.480337079 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => 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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