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 claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure
to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used
to challenge your position.
Millions of students, every year pass out of school studying different
curriculums depending upon their area of habitation. There are frequent
complaints from students following one curriculum that the examinations
were tough or criticizing other curriculums for setting comparatively easier
examinations. I feel that a nation should require all students to study the
same national curriculum until they enter college, some might feel differently
too, given that some people only want a minimum level of certification of any
curriculum.
First of all, many colleges have an entrance exam to select students for their
institution, one of the reasons being the varied curriculums all over the
country and the failure to establish minimum criteria of eligibility for their
institution. For instance, In India, for selection into a prestigious engineering
institution the students have to give the "IIT-Mains" and "IIT-Advanced"
examinations after giving the curriculum exams commonly known as the
"Board Examination". The hassle of these entrance examinations can be
avoided if the nation set a uniform curriculum all over the nation and these
colleges can establish a minimum aggregate selection in the institutions.
Moreover if a student wants to apply for foreign universities and has followed
a regional curriculum faces a lot of problems as there is no unbiased grade
conversion technique. Hence this will spread a level of uniformity over the
nation's academia.
On the other hand, some might argue that under privileged children studying
in regional government schools following a regional language curriculum will
face difficulties in passing school, whose main aim is to complete schooling
and look for a decent job with that certification. I feel that the low level of
difficulty of these curriculums have created no sense of studiousness in these
students and they feel, that no matter what they will clear the exams. On the
application of a uniform curriculum will drive away this feeling and these
students will get a better and a more dignified certification, which will help
them in the long run.
To sum up, the above reasons and examples substantiate my claim that a
nation should require all students to follow a national curriculum till they
enter college.