Should students be given the right to choose their own curriculum?

Imagine a school completely controlled by students, with students having the power to control the huge amount of resources that is put into education and teaching of the curriculum. To some students, this may seem like a utopia, but I believe, in actual fact, that this is impractical.

Firstly, I believe that giving students complete authority over their own curriculum is detrimental to the students' future. At school-going age, children may not have the sufficient experience or maturity to know what is best for them. At the particular age, a particular topic or activity may seem very enjoyable, but it may not be useful in the long-term, and will only end in the child realising his mistake later, and having to learn what he may have learnt many years before had he not been given the choice to choose his curriculum, and make an uninformed decision. The child may also unwittingly make an unwise choice without knowing the consequences, or deny himself the chance to try an area that he unknowingly has talent in.

Next, I feel that giving children the choice to learn whatever they want to will result in a society that is unable to sustain itself. The current education system that has been put in place is able to nurture students of different abilities and different interests into people who can contribute to society in many different areas, with there being a proportionate number of people in each discipline. Given the autonomy to decide their own curriculum, children may go with whatever is trending and seems "cool" in the world, resulting in an unbalanced society without sufficient people in different sectors of society.

Lastly, I feel that allowing children to decide their own curriculum will be impractical in terms of resources. Students may be interested in areas where very few people have the ability to train students sufficiently, resulting in poor quality of education. The interests of students may also be diverse, which will require a vast amount of resources to consolidate trained teachers and knowledge in each field.

I believe that even though children should not have complete autonomy about the curriculum they go through, students who have shown the maturity to be able to think of how they can contribute to society through certain areas, and are very passionate in them, can be given some freedom of choice to decide what kind of a curriculum they go through. Alternatively, students could be given a more limited choice, with several options of curriculum, rather than being able to choose whatever they want.