Can students be given the autonomy to develop their own curriculum?

My answer is no. There are several reasons as to why I disagree with this, primarily because of the limitation of resources and also due to a lack of dicipline.

Firstly, there will be a severe lack of teaching staff and resources. If students were given the freedom of choice, then lessons become a popularity contest. While the easier or more favored subjects may be overwhelmed with students, the harder or unpopular subjects may be left without participants, leading to teachers having to wait for students to join their classes. Also, the students will then be able to practise favouritism towards teachers. Thus, such a system would cause needless wasting of resources and teaching staff. This, coupled with a lack of dicipline will lower the standards of the school.

Secondly, the lack of dicipline such a system would cause may eventually lead to students lacking basic skills simply because the classes that teach these skills are too hard, leading to students not choosing these subjects, thus making this system detrimental to the students well being.

Therefore, I believe that the students would not benifit from autonomy and thus do not support it