School Syllabus Research Paper

The school syllabus is the "...outline and summary of topics to be covered in an education or training course.". It is the reason kids sit in classrooms and learn. The school syllabus has many inefficient aspects to it. This branches off into whether the subjects we learn in school are beneficial for students, as well as does it serve real world application uses once students graduate and begin their lives. A small portion of students would express themselves and state that the school syllabus is well planned and efficient, but myself and a great majority of student would protest against that. For several reasons and they are because, there are faults within the school syllabus, mandatory subjects that do not benefit students with real world …show more content…
The topics and subjects being taught are not practical. The syllabus was decided over a hundred years ago and has now stemmed from that initial decision. It has not had a major overhaul despite the jobs and lifestyles we are preparing the kids for being completely different from that period of time. We agreed with our human rights that everyone should be taught, but never had the conversation regarding what they should be taught. A strong majority of schools carry the same syllabus initiaative, which is very standard and that is; "Teaching to the test" which means, schools are heavily focussed on preparing students for standardized testing, rather than preparing students for the real wrold. An argument against that would be that school is not responsible for preparing you for the real world. Well, according to our human rights "Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening and respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms.". Clearly stating students are supposed to learn about real world things and human rights, but due to the fact students were never taught their human rights, they would never know. Instead of "Teaching to the test" and teaching subjects for the sake of testing them on subjects that will have no practical use for them later on in life, schools should instead be teachings things that have real world application uses such as; dealing with your finances, mortgages, balancing checkbooks and issues regarding