Some people think secondary school students should study

international news as one of their subjects. Other people say this is a

waste of valuable school time.

Due to advancement in IT, we do not belong to a big plant earth; we belong to a small global village.
Where everything is well connected and so, international news as a subject come under a debatable
question. So, people are divided on the issue of whether students should study international news or
whether it is off the mark in secondary school curriculum. Personally, I side with the latter view.

Mobs in favor of international news as subject has some slid reasons to support. Firstly, this would
enrich their experience and broaden their horizon. From the news of any part of the world, students
would become aware of the social, political and environmental problems faced by countries. This could
motivate them to do something for their own country, if they are lagging behind or even help other
nations by volunteering to help. For example, when Tsunami stuck japan voluntary worker from all part
of the abroad reached out for help. Moreover, the significance of opening international news subject is
that students can have general view of the world, which could help them to decide their career.

On the other hand, those who oppose adding international news adding international news as a
subject, says that secondary school students face stiff competition nowadays. So, it would be unfair to
add the burden of another subject. Moreover, ‘international news’ would have and ever-changing
syllabus and so would be practically impossible to introduce as a subject. Finally, in the pluralistic society
of today, some news may hurt the sentiments of any particular section of people and might all hell
broke loose.

Opinion of mine, international news should not be introduced as a subject. However, steps should not
be taken by secondary schools to keep students abreast of what is happening around the world by
having a short (5 minute) session in the morning assembly. In which every day a student could speak the
headlines. This would keep students up to date without having tension of memorizing things.

To sum up, I would like to say that International news should not be a part of school curriculum but it
should be used to aware the pupils about world scenario.