A Fundamentally Flawed SNC

The single National curriculum (SNC) was implemented in 2021 when Imran Khan was in power. The main purpose of introducing the single National Curriculum was to make uniform and equal education across the country.

The Single National Curriculum was first implemented for grades 1-5 in the provinces in 2021 and is scheduled for an extension to Grade 12 by 2023. When we talk about the standard of SNC, we find it pedagogically flawed, age-inappropriate, and with content of extremely poor quality.

Consider a few examples.

Mathematics in every public school from class 1 to class 5, without realizing the ground realities, is taught in English, a foreign language.
Justifying this decision does not have a convincing reason. This makes it impossible for disadvantaged children unfamiliar with the language to comprehend the subject.

Many primary teachers do not have the capability of teaching the students the said subject in English. Their academic and professional qualification does not match with the SNC.
How can they deal with it?

When we look at its other dimensions, we also find flaws in SNC. Parents were satisfied with SNC telling them repeatedly that the main focus of a single National curriculum is to introduce critical thinking and creative writing among the students.

Questions given in exercises that should be in Islamiat have been included in the English textbook. How does a single National Curriculum stimulate critical thinking?

In the Grade 3 English textbook, the use of conjunction and its types is given in the grammar section, which is beyond the capability of a student of class 3.

The book is devoid of the basic use of grammar, i.e., Articles, Nouns.
How can a student in grade 3 understand conjunction and its types?

There is no holistic solution found in SNC to the dwindling quality of education in the country. Those who favour the idea appear obsessed with bringing national integration through curriculum rather than fixing the core educational mess.

These examples are just the tip of the iceberg, reflecting the intent of the SNC to make children virtuous via an overdose of morality. How does that premise square with the evidence after 40 years of the injection of morality into the curriculum by Ziaul Haq? The nation is not any more moral while becoming a lot more intolerant and violent.