One hundred and eighty days per year. Five days per week. Fifty minutes per day. This is the amount of time an English teacher has to educate their students in one school year alone. In this short period, English teachers should be allowed to teach the curriculum they see fit for their students. They are only so influential and ought to have the right to pick and instruct the students on materials they deem important with the little time they have. They must teach to their best ability and get students to reach their full potential. Teachers can manage this if they choose what to instruct and how to instruct it. High school English teachers should be permitted to pick the texts given to their students rather than following a set curriculum …show more content…
Students will be given a vast range of writings to learn from rather than the same traditional classics being taught year after year. Source B presents a list of commonly required books to be taught to high school students. This source compares the books used in public schools to private schools. The list of texts and amounts in which they are used in each school are extremely similar. Few examples of such novels are: Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Huckleberry Finn, and Scarlet Letter. This shows how all these students are receiving nearly the same type of teaching and information from their English teachers. These teachers are limited to what they have to teach and are forced to focus their lesson plan around required material. High school students are being given the same lesson as every other English class. No student nor teacher has the chance to go beyond the curriculum and learn something new and different. Teachers should be allowed to pick the texts they want to teach their students. This would allow for a larger range of texts to choose from and a variety of different teaching methods. Students would have the chance to have an education like no other and expand their information on various