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 recommendation and explain the reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.
That a nation should set a standard curriculum required of all of its citizens would make sense only if their set curriculum included some optional courses and flexibility in the methods for which these were taught. If the set curriculum were limited to only English, Mathematics, Social Studies, Geography, Physical Education, and as in common here in New Zealand for example, Te Reo Maori; this would rule out all arts and creative studies and severely limit, possibly even detriment, those children who excel in the latter areas.
By limiting the national curriculum to specific 'core subjects’ without allocating hours to creative subjects, as they are often not deemed to develop critical life skills, there will be a huge number of predominantly creative children who will go through their entire schooling genuinely believing that they are 'bad at school'. On the other hand, with the opportunity to explore their creativity and excel in their favourite subjects, be they photography, design, drawing or even competitive frisbee for example (the choices should be limitless), the child will instead go about the world telling everyone "I'm an excellent painter/writer/frisbee player" and will be able to identify themselves with something for which they truly feel proud.
Further, if the national schooling curriculum were limited to specific 'core' subjects, there is a great risk that certain children, due to their upbringing and family situation, may not receive the skills that they will require in their lifetimes. A good example is children growing up in rural families. These youth in farming families naturally will need knowledge related to their environment; they will need to understand how the seasons affect their crops and as a flow on effect of that, their livestock and thus the family income. They will need to be able to recognise when areas of their land are suffering from drought, and how they can tackle such a problem. True, the child may decide to move into an urban region once they are old enough to choose their path in life and they may also learn many skills simply via learning at home. Both are reasons in which it could be argued, make the inclusion of agricultural studies obsolete for said child, however this child nevertheless would learn the most up to date knowledge if educated in school, and could even teach their parents a thing or two about land management.
Both examples, highlight the necessity for optional subjects in a national curriculum. After all aren't intelligent people generally classified as extremely competent problem solvers? And to solve complex problems, do we not essentially need to be seriously creative? And to develop our creative problem solving skills, thus our intelligence, surely we must be given the free rein to explore our own creativity throughout childhood, rather than be limited to some subjects which are certainly not considered by all children 'fun'.
In conclusion, a parochial attitude towards a national curriculum would be worthwhile only the instance where there is a designated number of hours every week, a suggested ten hours at least, in which any individual child is free to elect areas of schoolwork in the subjects where they are the most passionate, and will ultimately be able to excel in and express their individual creativity.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, may, nevertheless, so, thus, while, after all, at least, for example, in conclusion, 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: 26.0 12.4196629213 209% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 33.0505617978 130% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 58.6224719101 113% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalization wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2852.0 2235.4752809 128% => OK
No of words: 550.0 442.535393258 124% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18545454545 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.84273464058 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70029685847 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 290.0 215.323595506 135% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.527272727273 0.4932671777 107% => OK
syllable_count: 883.8 704.065955056 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.740449438202 0% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.77640449438 394% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.2370786517 74% => OK
Sentence length: 36.0 23.0359550562 156% => OK
Sentence length SD: 113.870960106 60.3974514979 189% => OK
Chars per sentence: 190.133333333 118.986275619 160% => OK
Words per sentence: 36.6666666667 23.4991977007 156% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.06666666667 5.21951772744 155% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 7.80617977528 102% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.15640977138 0.243740707755 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0609431924288 0.0831039109588 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0515720620837 0.0758088955206 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0982071693575 0.150359130593 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0313177689746 0.0667264976115 47% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 21.3 14.1392134831 151% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 34.94 48.8420337079 72% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 17.3 12.1743820225 142% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.41 12.1639044944 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.5 8.38706741573 113% => OK
difficult_words: 142.0 100.480337079 141% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 20.0 11.8971910112 168% => OK
gunning_fog: 16.4 11.2143820225 146% => OK
text_standard: 20.0 11.7820224719 170% => OK
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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