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PROMPT:
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.

RESPONSE:
While requiring all students to study the same national curriculum until college may ensure that all pupils are provided with the same materials, having a nationwide curriculum stifles students' interests, forcing them to take specific classes that may not benefit them in obtaining a career.

In modern societies, being able to obtain a financially stable career has become a primary goal of the millenial generation. In order to ensure that individuals will be able to obtain these careers, high schools should be focusing on helping students discover their personal interests and work towards reaching their career goals. However, if individuals are forced to take classes that follow a national curriculum rather than having the freedom to enroll in classes that interest them, then the national curriculum is a counterproductive tool. For example, a student who plans to become a fashion designer may be forced to take Calculus and Geology courses in high school due to a national curriculum. The student may be unable to comprehend how to find derivatives or have difficulty understanding how sedementary rocks are formed, leading them to spend more time studying these materials. However, it would be more beneficial for this individual to take commerical art courses or designing classes where they would be able to learn material that would benefit them in becoming a fashion designer. Therefore, enforcing a national curriculum until students enter college would force individuals to take classes that would have no real benefit for them in the future.

Along with having to take courses that may have no importance for them in the future, students would also be forced to learn materials simply out of necessity. This may lead students to lose interest in their classes as they are stuck learning a large amount of information that they find trite or dull while teachers would be working to meet national standards. Rather than focusing on helping students achieve their career goals and learn information that would have real-world applications, teachers would be concerned with teaching students everything that is required by the national curriculum. Instead of helping students understand the importance of the Civil Rights movement, for example, a World History teacher would be forced to explain the details of Mesopotamian societies to a class of students who are more interested in learning about police violence against minorities in Western nations. Having a national curriculum would, in short, require teachers to teach specific material that may not have relevance or may not interest students.

Although students' career goals and interests may be limited by a national curriculum, having a set amount of material that schools within a country must focus on ensures that all of the students have access to the same information and are on a fair playing-field when they continue their post-secondary education. In some cases, however, the information learned during middle and high school are forgotten by students unless they continue taking similar courses in college; a student that takes American Literature during their second year of high school may not remember the list of authors that they had to memorize during their first year of college unless they plan on majoring in English Literature. Likewise, individuals that have no interest in attending college would have no need for the irrelevant information that they learned during high school if that information does not help them with their job; a business owner would be more interested in their personal finances than in recounting the rise of the Mughal Empire in the Middle East. Rather than focusing on a national curriculum, it is necessary to allow students to learn the materials and take courses that interest them and would help them in the future.

Enforcing a national curriculum may help create a level playing-field for all students within a country, but in turn, it would force students to sacrifice their teenage years taking courses that would have no real benefit for them in the future.