The author claims that there should be a standard national curriculum for all the students until they enter college. I agree with this statement insofar that the standard curriculum should be flexible and have room for accommodating modifications or additions deemed necessary by concerned authorities.
The purpose of school education is not to create specialists at tender age. Students should have freedom to explore their interests and talents as well. Hence, a curriculum designed for school level should be an all encompassing one: it should be able to instill in children, knowledge, values, and attitudes that we would like to see in the generation succeeding us, and also give them space and opportunities to follow their passion. In my opinion, a jack of all trade and master of none is a good output of a school level curriculum, and if the national curriculum can target that, it may very well serve its purpose. Also, a national curriculum is an effective way to evaluate the performance of school students. Schools throughout the nation will have a distinct benchmark for assessing their students capabilities. This would aid in the periodic revision of curriculum to match the students' capabilities. An additional advantage of this provision is that the college authorities will have ease formulating their curriculum based on the performance indicator of the school students. This way, students will have ease acclimatizing to the academic curriculum when they transition from school life to college life.
However, a national curriculum, especially a rigid one is not without flaws. Firstly, it would preclude the inculsion of programs and courses that are primarily of regional and local significance. For example, a national curriculum may not be able to incorporate the regional dialects, histories, and mores. People belonging to that region would certainly want to inculcate these aspect of their lives in their children. If the curriculum is rigid and shut to revision at the regional level, children may be deprived of learning these thing in an academic environment. Furthermore, when formulated at the national level, parents and teachers will have little say in what goes up in the curriculum. It will probably be formed by a high ranking official or a lobbyist and will be a subject of political dissidence from time to time, a scenario common to where I come from.
To sum it all up, there are both pros and cons to adopting a national curriculum. But a flexible, all encompassing and periodically revised national curriculum will have an advantageous impact on the academic, social and moral development of students, such that it can be adopted with positive reviews throughout the nation.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'firstly', 'furthermore', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'so', 'still', 'well', 'for example', 'in my opinion']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.246376811594 0.240241500013 103% => OK
Verbs: 0.138716356108 0.157235817809 88% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0807453416149 0.0880659088768 92% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0372670807453 0.0497285424764 75% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0434782608696 0.0444667217837 98% => OK
Prepositions: 0.103519668737 0.12292977631 84% => OK
Participles: 0.0351966873706 0.0406280797675 87% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.02837250213 2.79330140395 108% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0351966873706 0.030933414821 114% => OK
Particles: 0.00207039337474 0.0016655270985 124% => OK
Determiners: 0.115942028986 0.0997080785238 116% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0434782608696 0.0249443105267 174% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0103519668737 0.0148568991511 70% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2727.0 2732.02544248 100% => OK
No of words: 438.0 452.878318584 97% => OK
Chars per words: 6.22602739726 6.0361032391 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57476223824 4.58838876751 100% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.39497716895 0.366273622748 108% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.317351598174 0.280924506359 113% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.27397260274 0.200843997647 136% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.168949771689 0.132149295362 128% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02837250213 2.79330140395 108% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 219.290929204 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.513698630137 0.48968727796 105% => OK
Word variations: 58.5241874771 55.4138127331 106% => OK
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6194690265 97% => OK
Sentence length: 21.9 23.380412469 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.5962903439 59.4972553346 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.35 141.124799967 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.9 23.380412469 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.7 0.674092028746 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.94800884956 81% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.21349557522 77% => OK
Readability: 53.6351598174 51.4728631049 104% => OK
Elegance: 1.75471698113 1.64882698954 106% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.335796765933 0.391690518653 86% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.119627811324 0.123202303941 97% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0794508525562 0.077325440228 103% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.511750733664 0.547984918172 93% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.1450458493 0.149214159877 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.141575709552 0.161403998019 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0884867036602 0.0892212321368 99% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.414527960236 0.385218514788 108% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0965221087473 0.0692045440612 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.248096549347 0.275328986314 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.063480336968 0.0653680567796 97% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.4325221239 86% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.30420353982 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.88274336283 143% => OK
Positive topic words: 8.0 7.22455752212 111% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 3.66592920354 109% => OK
Neutral topic words: 7.0 2.70907079646 258% => OK
Total topic words: 19.0 13.5995575221 140% => OK
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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