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            I believe that a national curriculum would be a bad idea for the purpose of education is not to create a group of drones around the country. The purpose of education is to teach students information pertinent to the region they live in and show them how they can improve on already existing relations. I will draw upon the readings of Michael Apple and Lisa Delpit to help develop an understanding of this issue. .
             The reasons that support my stance are as follows. One reason is that by having a national curriculum, the country is just standardizing education even further. We all know that standardized testing is not the greatest measurement of a student's capabilities and by having a set standard curriculum for the country, it is almost as if we (as teachers) are giving up on teaching. With a national curriculum, a monkey could walk into a classroom and hand out the assignments and we won't need well developed teachers. A second reason that goes along with the first is that we will lose all of the good teachers that we have in our school systems. Most of these high-quality teachers are people who have visions of what they feel the purpose of education should be and how they want to portray that vision in their classrooms. By having a national curriculum, the government is taking all creativity out of the classroom and focusing more on textbooks and getting the required knowledge taught, no matter how boring it may seem. These high-quality teachers will leave because they cannot teach the way the have been able to or wish to be able to, thus starting a major shortage in educators. This shortage will lead to school systems hiring any random person that hasn't been accused of child molestation and putting them in a classroom because they don't care about how they teach the material, they just care about the paycheck. The third reason that I feel a national curriculum is a bad idea is because there will be no difference between the education of students across the country.


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