<p>PE. For two years. And this isn’t just the usual gym class, it’s “run a mile in under 7 minutes or you’re getting a B in the class.” We alternated a mile or two miles every other Tuesday, we had dreadful swimming and water polo units for three weeks EACH, and we had to actually learn all the rules of all the sports and take written tests. I actually had the hardest time getting an A in this class out of any class in high school. Except maybe apush and ap bio. </p>
<p>We also have to take a Beginning Composition class freshman year in addition to a regular English class. It was such a waste of my time. I wish they would let us submit a writing sample and have the teacher see who actually needs the class.</p>
<p>Physical Education! Gym is mandated for every single grade in my state, and there’s no way to get around the requirement. This is driving me to take “early bird” gym (at 6 in the morning) next year so I can fit in other needed classes. There are a lot of apathetic kids in gym that could be focusing their time on more meaningful activities. I know its driven by the notion of improved public health, but the state has yet to provide data that the initiative has changed anything.</p>
<p>They should regulate the amount of junk food sold at schools and our lunch. My school has tater tots, fried chicken burger, hot cheetos, etc similar kinds of food for lunch. No wonder kids are not healthy. Not just at school but also at home kids eat lots of junk too.
So after PE we the students get hungry and we get more food from the vending machine and now the calories that have been lost is replenished.</p>
<p>PE, but I took dance for the PE credit haha =)
Art? I took dance for that as well lol.
Government, I’ll never understand it. =/ I want to live my life secluded as possible. In the middle of nowhere. In Kansas. Kidding~</p>
<p>@cchanged at my school they only sell healthy stuff. They eliminated all the vending machines and we have stuff like rice and chicken and broccoli for lunch. It’s actually great. It just annoys me that we can’t get out of gym if we do a sport. There’s no need to waste my time with a class if I’m spending 2 1/2-3 hours working out later.</p>
<p>@akacesfan I forgot to add Alaska studies to my list. The teacher that teaches the class in my school is a total deadbeat that makes the class watch movies all the time. Fortunately I will be taking it over the summer before junior year.</p>
<p>I take modern dance in place of PE but I hate it. I am gonna do tennis next year. I was going to take tennis this year but my mom didn’t want me to. :(</p>
<p>Gym. We have to take it for all four years of high school (Thanks, New York). It’s the most pointless class; I’d rather it be a class to focus on personal goals instead of playing lame sports.</p>
<p>Health. I had to take an online course because it would never fit into my schedule. I don’t see why high school kids need this; we already got two years of health class in junior high. By now this stuff should just be common sense.</p>
<p>Fine arts! And my art teacher doesn’t seem to understand that the reason her class is full of apathetic juniors/seniors is because we’re all just trying to get that credit. That class is dragging down my gpa…sorry that you don’t like my painting…</p>
<p>Two years of PE is required to graduate in my school district. And if you don’t pass the fitness test one year, you have to take PE every year until you pass it.
So pretty much, if you can’t run a mile under 8 minutes, or do 16 push ups, you can say goodbye to that class slot in your class schedule. Which is pretty bad at my school since we only have six class periods.</p>
<p>General Religious Studies and IT functional skills. The RS is pointless, all we do is watch unrelated movies and talk about stuff that the proper RS classes are doing to help them. IT is even worse, we did have an exam but it was so ridiculously easy that nobody did any of the work, and now it’s over we can basically do what we like in the lesson. We get the test results bak in two weeks, and I wouldn’t be surprised if quite a few people fail due to lack of studying…</p>
<p>Gym
Health (you just forget everything afterwards anyways. I don’t remember anything from the nutrition unit)
World Cultures (the one teachers say isn’t eurocentric, but it completely is)</p>
<p>I go to a combined middle/high school. To get promoted to HS, you have to take some required classes. (Although, they’re not required if you just move to my school after 8th grade.)</p>
<p>PE - 1/2 credit to get promoted to HS, 1 additional credit (equals 1 year) to graduate.
Guidance - semester class in 7th and 9th grade
Keyboarding - 1 sem. in 8th
Teen health - 1 semester in 8th and 10th (you can opt out of 8th though. )
To graduate, we need to do a “concentration”, or 2 years of some type of good elective (so either fine arts like band/choir/drama or a language)</p>
<p>Physical Education/Health -> both are semester classes
Regular Biology -> Must take, can’t even be substituted with AP Bio.
An extra semester of literature after AP Literature -> Don’t really mind that too much but I’d rather not have it.</p>