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[Walaa]

Issue

 

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

Education is an important wealth that no one should be deprived of. Unfortunately, that is exactly the case in many countries where the education provided to children is dictated by their socioeconomic class. Unifying the educational curricula in all the schools of a nation would greatly reduce the injustice being inflicted upon those less fortunate who were not given the privilege of being born into favorable circumstances.

A unified national curriculum allows the chance for students across the nation to experience the same level of education during their school years regardless of their non-academic background. This ensures that all school students stand an equal chance into entering any college, granted though there will be individual factors that play a role as well. But from an educational aspect, they have all been equally prepared. Hence, standardized tests or college entrance exams would not be passed by the more wealthier class that could afford good schools with better curricula or knowledgeable teaching staff. Instead, it would be passed by students based on their individual efforts.

 Moreover, since students from different social and financial backgrounds can enter the same prestigious university, this gives the “underdogs” a substantial chance to break free of their debilitating background and emerge as a sought after fresh graduate ready to enter the workforce. A student’s family background will not determine his or her success in life and would not hold them back, because they were provided the proper level of education they deserved.

Everything has both positive and negative outcomes, and the negative aspect in implementing this policy is its practicality. As is the case with countries around the world, a nation contains regions that differ economically from one another. As such, a wide discrepancy can be seen between education in wealthier areas versus that of poorer regions- wealthier regions normally have better school buildings, better teaching staff, more up-to-date equipment and can afford implementing a prep course for standardized examinations. Therefore, uniting the national curriculum would either place a financial burden on the poorer areas –effectively shutting some schools down- or decrease the level of education in the better-off provinces.

Change is the only constant and, unfortunately, is always accompanied by numerous risks. This policy rests on a fulcrum tipping between providing the right of an education to all children citizens and threatening the education of those with a favorable background. Ultimately, the current situation is not one that should continue and the risk of implementing this new curriculum unification policy should be taken.

Edited July 11, 2015 by Walaa