It is hard to see the truth in curriculum and what it really should be because of the way that curriculum is now. It is hard to write a curriculum for a group of people that are so different and diverse. How do we please everyone in a curriculum that is so rigid? It is also difficult for teachers because they have very limited time and resources to teach everything that everyone would want to be taught in schools. To have curriculum as part of a large public debate it is hard to draw a line between what gets brought into the classroom and what should stay out of curriculum. With this I think that teachers should have the option to teach things that are important to the people in that area instead of having the government dictate what should be taught because every school and even classroom is different and have different needs.
Curriculum is complicated is an understatement. Curriculum is a very generalized term that has to encompass so many things in one word. Curriculum is the lessons that are taught each day, the overall goals of the year, and key topics that are to be discussed, the lessons that students are to learn, etc. To have a curriculum that teachers are expected to follow is almost pointless because every teacher is going to follow the curriculum differently and going to teach different topics and ask different questions and the students are going to learn differently. Curriculum and teachers in my opinion have a hard relationship. Teachers are instructed to follow a curriculum but then they are forced to adapt in every situation. And it causes a tough balance between teacher and curriculum.