Theme: Some people believe that students should be taught international news as a subject at school. Others feel that this would be a waste of valuable school time. Discuss both views and give your opinion.
News regarding the latest international developments and significant global events are no doubt indispensable, especially in our ever-changing world, so nobody should neglect or overlook global affairs. Numerous people think that students should not disregard international announcements as well, that is they should be educated ones. However, on the contrary, the opponents of this view, state that teaching news would consume the important proportion of school-time. The debate is not entirely straightforward so there are several arguments from both sides.
On the one hand, teaching worldwide news can be advantageous in numerous cases and even bring various benefits to a pupil. The merits range from educational profits to a pupil. The merits range from educational profits that could contribute to a student’s all-round development, to the understanding external world beyond the pupils’ habitual environment and expanding the worldview. For example, exploring global announcements allow students to obtain data from multiple areas, thereby adding greatly to academic disciplines such as science, humanities and social science. Furthermore, news as a subject being taught at school tend to make pupils realize the existence of the outer realm to the full extent, contrary to their familiar surroundings, thus causing them to be globally aware, recognize international concerns and constitute an opinion about countless world issues.
The other side of the debate is that educating global news, as a complete study material is wasteful, meaning that it appears to deplete important time at school. This is because the students are engaged in a variety of activities with academic fields of study involved; therefore, inserting subject about global news into school discipline would employ time, which could be spent on other academic practices. A second point is that as a full course study, it may excessively inundate a student with additional tasks and investigations of international broadcasts making time at school overwhelmed with an extra subject. Again, students would be engaged in an unnecessary activity of learning news rather than priorities other important academic areas, which should be properly addressed. A final point is that world news being taught at school perhaps merely do not serve the student’s interest and may not be their top priority in the future career. This leads us on to the facts that rather being forcibly taught global news pupils should focus on subjects of a paramount importance, which explicitly reveal their interests and preferences.
To conclude, it appears that it teach international news is highly advisable, however, in reality, educating news as a complete subject would pose a great challenge to the students, since it would be difficult to systematically manage time between top priority subjects. Provided that international news would be taught as an optional not compulsory subject, the students might not be pressured by time allocation between academic disciplines.