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Dominic - IELTS Curriculum Essay

Traditional subjects like art, music, and sport are being replaced in some school curriculums by more modern subjects like information technology. While IT skills are important for careers, traditional subjects also play a role in developing students' culture and personalities. The author believes primary students should study both traditional and modern subjects, while secondary students should be able to choose subjects that interest them.

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Dominic - IELTS Curriculum Essay

Traditional subjects like art, music, and sport are being replaced in some school curriculums by more modern subjects like information technology. While IT skills are important for careers, traditional subjects also play a role in developing students' culture and personalities. The author believes primary students should study both traditional and modern subjects, while secondary students should be able to choose subjects that interest them.

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IELTS curriculum essay

Subjects such as Art, Sport and Music are being dropped from the school curriculum for
subjects such as Information Technology. Many people children suffer as a result of
these changes. To what extent would you support or reject the idea of moving these
subjects from school curriculum?


In recent times there has much debate about which subjects should be included on the
school curriculum. One particular issue is whether the introduction of more modern subjects
such as IT for more traditional subjects such as art and music disadvantages the pupils. I
believe that this is a difficult question and different solutions need to be found for primary and
secondary schools.

There is one major argument in favour of replacing art, music and sport on the curriculum
with subjects like IT. This is that the purpose of school is to prepare children for their working
life after school, so the subjects on the curriculum should be relevant to their potential careers.
From this point of view, IT is much relevant to schoolchildren as they need to be computer
literate if they want to survive in the workplace. For example, it is easy to see that word
processing and programming skills will impress employers more than the ability to run fast or
draw well.

There are also, however, strong arguments for retaining the more traditional subjects as part
of the curriculum. One significant counter-argument is that the purpose of education is not
just to prepare children for later careers, but also to develop their all round culture. It is
important that children leave school with some knowledge of art, music and sport as all these
are all help develop aspects of young peoples personalities.
My own personal point of view is that there is merit in both sides of the debate and that all
children should study some IT, art music and sport at least at primary school. At secondary
school, however, children should be offered a choice between these subjects so that they can
continue to study them if they wish.
( 293 words - By Dominic )

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