The curriculum in school nowadays is developed and converged by the teachers and the principal. If the curriculum had been developed by the students, school life would be much different from what it is now. How different it is will be another thing: Is it good, or is it bad for the student population? I strongly believe that it’s good for the student population. I will be stating three reasons why the students would benefit from the right to develop their own curriculum.
For a start, we are currently Secondary Two students, and are mature enough to settle our own studies. At our age, many of us are already capable of handling our own studies. They are independent enough, and to proceed without the help and support of parents or anybody else. When we are able to handle our studies ourselves, why not give us the rights to develop our own curriculum? In that case, many students would be able to fit various commitments into their already stock-piled timetable. For example, students with heavy CCA time commitments would have trouble keeping up with the curriculum due to heavy time commitments. If the curriculum is modified to give these students a chance to recover, I think it is best for the whole student population. Therefore, I think at our age we have the ability to settle our own studies, and therefore should be given the autonomy to develop our own curriculum.
Besides that, we are also in the best position to understand our own studies and conditions. As the learners ourselves, we are in the optimum position and perspective to understand our own studies and our standards. With this substantial advantage, paired with the right and autonomy to develop our own curriculum would be doubly effective. For example, a student himself or herself might know how well he is doing at a particular subject exactly, but is having troubles voicing it out. If they are given the rights to develop their own curriculum, they can solve a prominent majority of their problems, and at the same time they can learn much more, either based on their interest or their strengths. Thus I feel that at the optimum position to understand our studies, we should be given the autonomy to develop our own curriculum.
(Lastly, the students that develop their curriculum will train various skills. Through the process of developing their own curriculum, these students train not only their life skills, but skills like research skills and organizing, etc. For example, when students are coming up with their curriculum they will need to strive for accuracy of facts, and the precision of other aspects. To achieve this they will need to conduct extensive research, as well as organize the gathered information before designing the curriculum. In this manner the various skills of these students are trained repeatedly, and therefore the overall standard of the school is improved. Thus, the students' skills can be improved because of the skills that can be trained.
As a conclusion, I state again that when students develop their own curriculum there are many benefits along with it, and therefore they should be given the autonomy to develop their own curriculum.
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