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

Essay topics:

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

Although the argument for a national standard curriculum during pre-college schooling may seem to promote equal opportunity for all students, it takes away from the freedom each student has by allowing them to make their education their own. Students' ability to make their own choices about curriculum allows them to shape themselves into the person they dream of being. A nation standardizing curriculum for pre-college students would cost each student their personal ambition and freedom of religion.

Recognizing that each student is not working toward the same goal is essential. Many students want to pursue secondary education, while many others do not. Allowing students and their families to make their own choices about the school and curriculum they want to attend will better allow them to learn and equip the skills, knowledge, and experience needed for their own future. A standardized curriculum would simply not allow students to personalize their education to reach the goals that they have set for themselves.

It should also be recognized that standardizing curriculum would expose students to ideas and beliefs that they don't agree with. Many subjects, but especially natural sciences, are taught differently depending on what religious background the curriculum is based upon. A curriculum built upon a background of Christianity would most likely teach a creation-based science, while a curriculum not built on a religious standpoint would likely feature an evolutionary-based science. Looking at just these two examples exposes us to just one of the many conflicts that may come up regarding personal values when implementing a standardized curriculum.

Students should have the opportunity to access the education that is needed for them to reach their personal goals but based on the problems we've looked at already, a standardized curriculum does not do this without costs. A standardized curriculum for pre-college students would directly affect the student's personal ambitions as well as their religious freedom.

Votes
Average: 7.3 (1 vote)

Comments

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, look, may, regarding, second, so, well, while, as well as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 7.0 100% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 1.00243902439 1097% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 8.0 6.8 118% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 3.15609756098 222% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 31.0 5.60731707317 553% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 36.0 33.7804878049 107% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 3.97073170732 252% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1736.0 965.302439024 180% => OK
No of words: 313.0 196.424390244 159% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.54632587859 4.92477711251 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20616286096 3.73543355544 113% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00278360313 2.65546596893 113% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 106.607317073 155% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.527156549521 0.547539520022 96% => OK
syllable_count: 526.5 283.868780488 185% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.45097560976 117% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 1.53170731707 131% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.33902439024 115% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.07073170732 280% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 0.482926829268 414% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 0.0 3.36585365854 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 8.94146341463 145% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.4926829268 107% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.4578014051 43.030603864 120% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.538461538 112.824112599 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0769230769 22.9334400587 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.53846153846 5.23603664747 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 1.69756097561 118% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 3.70975609756 189% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 1.13902439024 351% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.09268292683 49% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.220511588568 0.215688989381 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0967704586429 0.103423049105 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0558415900494 0.0843802449381 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.144505942673 0.15604864568 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0441318618243 0.0819641961636 54% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.8 13.2329268293 127% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 61.2550243902 63% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 6.51609756098 172% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 10.3012195122 134% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.21 11.4140731707 133% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.71 8.06136585366 108% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 40.7170731707 189% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.4329268293 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.9970731707 105% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.0658536585 108% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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