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137. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? High schools should allow students to study the courses that students want to study. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.
Admittedly, interest is the best teacher ever. When people are learning something they are truly interested in, they will show the strongest passion and making the most effort, thus best learning. But when it comes to high school students, should they be allowed to choose the courses they are interested in and want to study? I will give a definite NO. Three reasons are given as follows.
First and the most important, letting high school students choose courses by themselves will lead to absence of learning something truly important. As we all know, some basic courses, such as math, English, physics, and so forth, are really necessary and useful not only for our daily life, but also for further learning of other courses. Without learning of math, we cannot well calculate taxes, sales, or interest, and will not be able to protect ourselves when dealing with money; without learning of English, we will not be able to well communicate with foreign friends, read literatures written by English, and handling business with foreign corporations; without learning of biology, people will not gain common sense on living mechanism of organisms, and also, when people want to further their study on medicine, biology is the prerequisite. However, high school students may not be able to see the significance of these courses and not at all have an interest in choosing them, which will result in their difficulty in daily lives and lack of background knowledge for further study on other field.
Even if high school students have chosen all the basic and important courses, their selection of other courses may distract their learning and waste their time. Time is limited for students, when they are investing too much time on learning courses they want to study, they will not have enough time and energy to handle the important ones. When I was in high school, a friend of mine was a big fan on violin. To obtain better performance, she kept practising 3 hours every day when she came back home from school. Sometimes she was so tired that she could not finish all the homework on time, not to mention review and preview courses. She made a huge progress, but, at the same time, her scores for courses in school made a huge fall. Finally, she had to decrease the time of practising violin. In this case, my friend just spent spare time on learning what she is interested in, which shows a negative effect on learning school courses. Can you imagine what will happen if students' hobbies become their courses?
Finally, limited financial and substantial resources cannot support students' free choices of courses. Interests are diverse among people. One hundred students may have one hundred interests. Does that mean school will have to design one hundred courses to satisfy all the students, for example, to build a pool for 100/4000 students who are willing to learn swimming? That will be so inefficient and unpractical. Therefore, to sum up, high school students should not be allowed to choose whatever courses they want to study, but focus on necessary and important courses in school, and enjoy their hobby in spare time.
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