A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college.

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A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college.

Throughout the course of history, general education has become more and more ubiquitous. Many indicators of the well-being of a nation often factor in the prevalence of compulsory primary and secondary education. As a result, how learning systems at these levels are structured has never been of such importance. One common argument is whether all students should take upon a uniform national curriculum before entering college. It is my greatest belief that only a portion of such bundle should be identical across children in school. I strongly insist that there should still be a section of a student's educational upbringing where they have the free will to determine which courses is more becoming to them. In the following paragraphs, I would like to elucidate my contentions and provide examples.

First and foremost, students are not identical learning devices that have the same algorithm installed in their brains. There bears no doubt that different individuals possess a wide variety of combinations of interests, skills and expertise. Needless to say, they also carry the burden of different shortcomings and flaws. It is often seen in a high school mathematics lecture, where a portion of the students have already mastered the content, and are idly waiting for the teacher to move on. There also exists another group of classmates, who after the lecturer's frantic re-explanation are still incapable of grasping the concept of matrices. Creating a set of curricula where all students need to stringently abide by would create a cataclysm where half the class doesn't bear the same footsteps as what the course expected. This frustrating issue could easily be solved if elective courses are treated with a higher priority in the educational concoction. Students would be allowed to truly find which disciplines call to them, and connect with like-minded classmates in a classroom environment that could facilitate their growth.

Proponents of the ideal of seeing an identical national curriculum as requisite often assert the importance of assuring that all students receive proper education in all fields of studies before tertiary education. While it is undeniable that there are many pieces of information that should be shared and acquired across all school-aged children, it is fallacious to insist that a twelve-year course should only be filled with an unchangeable menu of courses for all students. I agree whole-heartedly that for elementary education, children should be given the same structure of education as to fully prepare them for different disciplines that they would accrue interest in. There is no doubt that all students should be able to do simple arithmetic, as well as understand the important historical events around the world. However, secondary education should be an environment where students are given the chance to step into different disciplines that they expect to provide them with knowledge that is truly of use to them. One common saying for college students is that "I have forgotten around 80% of what I've learn in high school." This is not unthinkable as many nations today still require students to stick to a one-size only educational systems. Students that study engineering will eventually forget the tortuous ways a prose could be written from high school English, and students in the field of law usually cannot remember sine and cosine values from high school mathematics.

By way of conclusion, I would like to reiterate my belief that a nation should set an identical curriculum for students before college. Firstly, students have different interests and fortes, which would be underexposed should they stick to the same studies. Equally important is that while there should still be some common courses that all students should take, requiring students to participate in quasi-high level courses that would not help them in the future is usually tantamount to a waste of time and brain cells. From the aforementioned points, it is clear that allowing students to have some leeway in the decision of what they would like to learn in a secondary level of education is truly the way to create elites in all wonderful fields of studies and disciplines.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 595, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a student' or simply 'students'?
Suggestion: a student; students
...that there should still be a section of a students educational upbringing where they have ...
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Line 5, column 769, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...create a cataclysm where half the class doesnt bear the same footsteps as what the cou...
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Line 9, column 1118, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: I've
...pos;I have forgotten around 80% of what Ive learn in high school.' This is not...
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Line 9, column 1122, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[8]
Message: The proper name in singular (Ive) must be used with a third-person verb: 'learns'.
Suggestion: learns
...I have forgotten around 80% of what Ive learn in high school.' This is not unthi...
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Line 13, column 259, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Equally,
... should they stick to the same studies. Equally important is that while there should st...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, however, if, second, so, still, well, while, as to, no doubt, of course, as a result, as well as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 35.0 19.5258426966 179% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 27.0 12.4196629213 217% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 30.0 11.3162921348 265% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 51.0 33.0505617978 154% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 95.0 58.6224719101 162% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 12.9106741573 155% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3558.0 2235.4752809 159% => OK
No of words: 677.0 442.535393258 153% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.25553914328 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.10090420048 4.55969084622 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86462470066 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 314.0 215.323595506 146% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.463810930576 0.4932671777 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1108.8 704.065955056 157% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 0.0 4.99550561798 0% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.894143928 60.3974514979 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.846153846 118.986275619 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.0384615385 23.4991977007 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.53846153846 5.21951772744 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.301760434207 0.243740707755 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0854405356585 0.0831039109588 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0828802655388 0.0758088955206 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.208706263005 0.150359130593 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0771165000999 0.0667264976115 116% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.4 14.1392134831 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 12.1639044944 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.63 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 159.0 100.480337079 158% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.


Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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