Standardized Curriculum

As the controversy on the government’s role in education has remained present for decades, people have disagreed on the best way to educate a child. Public schools, paid for by tax-payers’ money and regulated by the government, bring into question how much control of the curriculum the government should have. While private schools, schools privately owned and paid for by tuition of the students and outside donations, do not have these regulations but bring about other concerns about the standard of the curriculum. Are private schools more effective, with only limited government regulations? Or do students need the structured approach, a standard curriculum designed to help them with their future academic endeavors? In the last decade, several pushes to set a standard curriculum have been passed into law in the United States. …show more content…
While private education provides some advantages of flexibility to students in the classroom, there are some drawbacks to an education fixed around a set religious or philosophical teaching, and while public schools are showing a greater increase in academic achievement in their students, the government sanctioned curriculum does create a more rigid classroom setting, as teachers do not have any flexibility within their own classroom. Both public and private schools have both positive and negative aspects, and ultimately, there does need to be some kind of baseline for the standards of education, however, there needs to be room in curriculums to examine more than just what students will be tested on, but also on what they will need to live fuller and healthier