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1st Answer: I completely agree with the statement mentioning that a nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college.
Student life is one of the most important times in a man's life. It builds the foundation for the rest of his life. Education is the basic right of a human being. If the curriculum is same, all of the students are going to learn the same thing till they are grown enough to make their own choices. In this way, they'll be having basic knowledge about everything essential. They'll be learning arts, music with the same importance as they are learning Calculus. Human brain differs from person to person. Not everything gives the same pleasure to everyone. But sometimes, even before a child is born, their career gets fixed. Due to societal pressure, a doctor's son tends to become a doctor. The pressure won't get lessened if they study different subjects. But atleast, they will have a proper exposure to everything. Students will get proper timing to get introduced with the subjects. Furthermore in college, they will be able to choose a branch of their desired field and get specialization.
However, same national curriculum isn't as easy as it sounds. To ensure this system, we must need to make sure that they get basic knowledge about core stuff. We can't uproot an existing system just like this. To get into the system, we must understand how the system works. Because of their parent's financial and economic backgrounds, children bear the consequences too. We cannot make a child learn golf whose father makes day to day earnings. In the same way, a kid accustomed to living a posh lifestyle, won't find interest in learning sewing to make a day's meal.
So, education should not be limited to only bookish knowledge. Rather, it should be addressed as a lifeskill. Similarly, we need to provide the proper reasoning to the students why they are learning stuff. It's high time we told them the reason they're learning multiplication and periodic tables instead of just telling them to ramble of. Why they learn is as important as introducing the whole new topic in front of them. However, if we introduce all branches of knowledge without providing them a solid foundation, that's going to worsen the situation unfortunately. Students will be spending more time one subject than the other. So that'll worsen the situation in the long run.
Hence, we must maintain a balance to proper the situation. We need to set up a curriculum in such a way that doesn't ensure same quantity for every subject, rather same quality for every subject. By taking feedbacks and analyzing their data, we can approach this problem nicely. If there's a class of 50 students, we can't make 50 students exel in everything. But we need to hear their voices. In which subject they are lagging behind. Where majority of them are struggling- we need to pin point that out.
Thus we can say, education should be made equal for everybody and knowledge should be a basic field. However while making this thing come true, rules and regulations must be maintained properly. Since education is the basic right, the national curriculum should give a proper base for every students. However, whilst doing so, it's mandatory to provide them the core foundation. Otherwise in college, they'll suffer from academic frustations and burn outs. In Bangladesh, the educational curriculum is changing according to the given statement. The reaction is somewhat mixed between positive and negative reviews. Where one group is being happy that their children will learn the stuff that were once regarded as "brilliant", others are having fear regarding how they'll cope up with the sudden change. A mixed balance between quality and quantity is the best answer.
2nd Answer: Late-night news programs divide their timimgs into two sections. One slot is dedicated for the national news and another one is for the local news and weather forecasting.
Since last year, the channel changed their timing slot. They put more importance to national news than the local ones. As a result, the timing for local news and weather forecasting got lessened. This plan did not seem to go well with the consumers. They lost their interest when they faced change in their usual type of news coverage. Complaints from the viewers started to outflow regarding the program. Since public attract the product, this timing difference made a negative impact on people's interest. As a result, advertising agencies also cut short their interaction with the television station. Local business canceled promoting their products. This overall scenario not only hampered the viewership, but also the profit being earned from outside sources.
Observing the overall scenario, the business manager is planning a strategy which can regain the previous interest people had for this particular late news program. To ensure that, the channel is planning to give more slots to weather and local news as it used to do the year prior. They gave importance to people's complaints and the trend of waning revenues.
In short, for people watching the late night news program, local news, weather forecasting and knowing about local business products is as important as the national ones. Otherwise the majority of complaints about the lessened coverage wouldn't have occured. The misbalance between those can create a stiff and unpleasant experience for the consumers. And to run a program, customer's preference decides the revenues a company is going to earn from that. According to the business manager, while experimenting on new changes, it's best to observe the changes that occurs along with it. That'll help to decide whether the existing scenario is better than that of the previous one.