Some people think that secondary school children should study international news as one of the school subjects. Other people think that it is a waste of valuable school time. Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

The importance of global media appears to increase year after year, so much so there have been calls to introduce
news
channels into the classroom. I believe
this
to be politically dangerous and potentially damaging due to the
nature
of international media.
Firstly
, considering the importance education has in
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modern society, it is extremely worrying and dangerous to even consider substituting school subjects with international
news
.
This
is because the danger lies in choosing a correct, balanced, unbiased and neutral
news
source
,
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if one even exists.
For
example
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if a child spent their school days watching FOX
NEWS
, they would potentially have a skewed opinion of the world due to its unabashed right-wing credentials.
Therefore
, changing a child's information diet from traditional subjects
such
as music, PE, or geography to watching a potentially partisan
news
channel is an extremely worrying and risky idea.
Secondly
, if international
news
were to become a new subject it could have a detrimental emotional impact on young minds.
This
is because in
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the majority of
news
is of a negative
nature
,
hence
the expression, "If it bleeds, it leads".
For example
, studies by the EFE
News
Agency show that 85% of headlines are negative in
nature
, usually referring to natural disasters, war, famine, etc. The logic of having these types of stories beamed into a school to those of an impressionable age has to be challenged.
Thus
the obligation of watching
news
of a negative
nature
makes for a convincing argument against
such
an innovation. To conclude, due to the risk from political influences and the harsh reality of global
news
, I am strongly in
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of maintaining the current curriculum.
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