OPENING REMARKS

Teacher, students and my opponents, good evening.

This time my colleagues and I will talk about our position on the subject to be
discussed.
the three main points of our position are:
- Lack of maturity in students to choose study topics.
- Why should students make fair decisions?
- Are the students able to choose correctly?
We disagree that students can choose their subjects to study at school because,
Most of the educational material that students must learn in a course cannot be
chosen by them the reason is, in most subjects included in music, they do not
know what they need to learn, they would choose subjects that seem easy, that
they already have prior knowledge of those subjects, for this reason, I think that
students should adapt to any situation, get involved in those subjects that they
do not like, since they can get a lot out of it in the future.

It is proven that students need to know various facts about history, math,
science, and reading, regardless of what they want to learn. There are some
things you just need to know. If the child chooses not to learn history, then he
will not know basic facts about the revolutionary war, the civil war, or any other
major event.
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And what happens when you don't choose well?

This dilemma has two possible solutions. Letting students make decisions
about learning where the consequences are not as severe, such as short topics or
group projects in class. And on the other hand, understand that a bad choice is
an opportunity to learn. Students will learn from their mistakes.
For example, if a student discards fractions operations, they will be unable to
be successful in any rigorous element of mathematics instruction.
Another reason why students should not be empowered to make curriculuar
based decisions is that it creates chaos in the instructional methodology of the
teacher. If one student seeks to eliminate fractions, and another one decimals,
and a third one percents, there is no way comprehensive instruction can be given
because every student could conceivably eliminate a part of the curriculum.
It is the function of the competent teacher to lay a path for all students to follow
in the acquisition of content in this light.
A good teacher can leave choices on how students might wish to pursue certain
aspects of the content, but the overall content must be grasped by all students in
order to see them become stronger and more competitive in the field of
learning.
No one is advocating that students not be given a choice to develop their own
passion and zeal in content. Yet, the idea that students can "choose" or "select"
their own topics of a curriculum denies them the opportunity to understand all
aspects of it so that an informed choice can be made.