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 your 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.
The author states that all students of a nation should follow the same national curriculum until they enter college. The basis of this recommendation might be that students should, no matter from which part of a country they are hailing from should be equitably given the chance to learn different subjects. But this recommendation in my opinion is going to have a negative impact on students rather than having a positive impact.
We all are good at certain areas of fields of life. Some are good at many things, having a wide variety of talents and intelligence,but others only good at a few areas of life. I believe that no matter how capable a person is, everyone should be given an equal shot at there academic life. Consider a student, let's say Tim who is good at math and science, but not so good at arts. If the authors recommendation is adopted then a Tim will also have to learn arts as a part of this curriculum. From my personal experience this is going to create a problem for Tim as students get easily frustrated with studies, especially when its a subject they are not good at.Tim can work hard as much as he can but still under perform in an arts subject. Instead of forcing every student to take up every subject as part a national curriculum one should be given a choice as of which all subjects one want's to study.
On the other hand, many students struggle through there school life trying to figure out what is it that they are good at. Most of them won't have much idea as for what career path they should take. Our society is rife with various occupations, which might be confounding to a student. In this case it will have a positive impact if authors recommendation is carefully adopted as a student can get familiar with different subjects in school and later on in college one can choose which field he should specialize in, then go on and learn about what one is good at or interested .
The idea the author as it mentioned is parochial as it is too inconsiderate about the varying talents of student. Instead of requiring mandatory for all students of a nation to follow the same curriculum they should be given the choice which all parts of the curriculum they can adopt.Adopting his recommendation as it is could bring more problems than alleviate existing problems.
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