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Changes in School Curriculum
A. Sidorchuk, 10a

As a senior student, I’m not satisfied with our current school curriculum. Firstly, there are too many unnecessary subjects, which won’t be useful in our future. Secondly, the system attempts to pile up too much information, which is hard to be learnt and remembered. Consequently, the amount of HW is simply huge due to the amount of the material. So, Ukrainian school curriculum is an ongoing concern which every pupil has to deal with. There are a number of possible solutions which could make our education easier and much more interesting.

One way would be for our Ukrainian Ministry of Education to follow the suit of some western countries, as France, Germany or GB. School curriculum is compiled in a wiser way there. For example, senior students in GB have a restricted number of subjects. The core subjects are English, Maths and Science. If our education gave us the possibility to choose subjects, we would understand that we work for our future.

Another solution is to exclude subjects, we are able and have a desire to learn by visiting museums, exhibitions, special courses or even web sites. These are Art Culture, Sanitation, Technologies and so on. I would leave Literature, cause reading helps us to formulate our opinion, it helps to relax and be inspired; biology, cause we have to understand our human nature; languages, cause it’s the main way to communicate with people from other countries and share our thoughts. I think that Maths, Geography, History and Languages must be obligatory. These subjects are the bedrock of everything. Therefore, we would have enough time to get ready for every lesson and we would have more benefits from our education.
As we live in the Russian-speaking city we have to know this language well. We must be literate, must be able to express our thoughts in Russian correctly. So, Russian should be studied as an elective course. Thus, we would justify our abilities.
Of course, Ukrainian, as an extra class, has to be studied in our schools. As a result, we would get better preparation and bigger experience before ZNO.
I think if my proposals were put into practice, it would change the quality of secondary education for the better, cause pupils would be more serious in their choice, as there future depends on it. They would not be distracted from their main direction. But it would not prevent them from being interesting, wise, well-read and civilized people.