<p>What are some annoying required classes that your school makes you take? Mine are World Religions, Speech, and Christian Dynamics. Have passes these classes with 100+ averages without studying. I find it obnoxious that we have to take these classes, and fill up valuable space that we could use to take other classes. What are your opinions?</p>
<p>Ethics: I had to take this my freshmen year because the class before me stole numerous school laptops. After that incident, “ethics” was taught at our school.</p>
<p>Gateway Seminar: I’m actually okay with this class. I wrote my resume and cover letter for my senior internship that is actually required at my school.</p>
<p>Personal Finance (Semester Class)
Lifetime Wellness - It is gym +health (Year Round)
Gym (Semester Class)- you have to take it if you are not in a TSSAA sport</p>
<p>Microsoft Applications for a year. Seriously? It doesn’t even count as a vocation credit like the other computer courses we offer; it’s its own completely different requirement.</p>
<p>Health for 1 semester freshman year and 1/2 a semester sophomore year, and then we have monthly (?) seminars for junior and senior year.</p>
<p>Gym for 3 years, 1 semester each.</p>
<p>At my school, the only annoying requirement is that you must take a study hall that takes up one of our eight periods every year. To make it worse, you only have time to do your work roughly every other day. About twice a week the school makes us do remedial writing and math prompts that are school-wide due to our low state-test scores. How embarrassing is it that I’m going into calculus, yet the school makes me do basic pre-algebra word problems for 45 minutes a day simply because other students do poorly. =/</p>
<p>Other than that, we have no required classes except for 1.5 credits (3 semesters) of P.E. and 0.5 credits (1 semester) of Health. </p>
<p>I actually wouldn’t mind a Personal Finance, World Religions, or Speech class - I think they are all extremely useful skills that many adults lack! I think they would fit better in middle school, however, that way students could fill their schedule with more academically-demanding classes.</p>
<p>Oh. I think GYM is the most useless class of all. I can’t stand sports. I absolutely hate all kinds of sports.</p>
<p>We don’t even have any fun in P.E., really. On TV you hear about kids playing dodgeball and football and having fun in gym, but not us, lol. Our gym class consists of 10 minutes of dressing, 20 to 30 minutes of running, 10 to 15 minutes of push-ups/sit-ups/other body weight exercises, and then ~45 minutes of instruction time which are followed up with written tests based on the rules of different kinds of sports, basic anatomy, weight-room safety, etc.</p>
<p>Gym for 2 years. But I’m going to take PE over the summer this year.</p>
<p>In my school district everyone has to take 1.5 semesters of lifetime personal fitness(gym). I’m trying really hard to stay out of that class.</p>
<p>Mine:</p>
<p>10 minutes dressing
5(?) minutes running, 10 minutes walking … or the reverse. I don’t remember because I’m not taking it this year.
The remaining 70 or so minutes are dedicated to walking the track, yoga (DVD), pilates (DVD), kickboxing (DVD), kickball, tennis, soccer, and what have you. </p>
<p>I’m athletically challenged, so I’d usually walk, be anti-social, and use the class to study vocabulary flashcards on my iPod/cram 50-70 pages of whatever book I was supposed to be reading for my English class (which was on the same day) :P.</p>
<p>Alaska Studies for a semester, plus 1.5 credits of gym. </p>
<p>IEatPenguins, LPF is actually ridiculously easy at my school.</p>
<p>Physical Education for 4 semesters/2 years (no biggie for me because I’m in a sport)
Art for 1 year
Health for 1 semester</p>
<p>I have to take gym every semester in high school. But since I’m in marching band, I get waived out for the first semester… lol</p>
<p>I had to take this class called ‘Global Issues.’ It was supposed to be a current events class, but was more like Political Correctness 101.</p>
<p>Guidance, wasting time learning about" be professional" and ESLRs. “You are what you do!” It’s a semester class, but its place used to be for Career Prep class. Now I will have to find an extra spot for Career prep class.
Gym is okay for me.</p>
<p>Oklahoma History, not as interesting as other history courses and teacher is very boring too</p>
<p>In my school district, you have to take a semester of health and a semester of PE to graduate.</p>
<p>HobbitTon:
Lucky you. Only one semester of PE! I have to have 2 years. Health for one semester and Guidance for another.</p>
<p>I hate the gym requirement. I play sports year round, but I might have to drop Orchestra just so I can get the stupid half credit I need…</p>
<p>PE. Always PE.
Can’t the physically weak and poorly coordinated be exempt from this class</p>
<p>One hour and thirty minutes of torture every other day with an airhead of a teacher…it’s painful</p>
<p>One semester health, three semesters of PE (can be waived), two semesters fine arts.</p>