Does/Did your high school have stupid requirements for graduation?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>In our high school, we HAVE to take a certain amount of electives from two different categories. We can't graduate unless we get enough credits in each category (5 in each, then 5 in either, taking up the same amount of room as maybe an extra 3 possible APs over the high school career). This leaves less room for more challenging and/or interesting classes in high school for people who go to my school. So, do you guys have something in your school's curriculum that you think is REALLY unnecessary?</p>

<p>By the way, I'm a sophomore so if anyone is thinking "he's just complaining because he can't graduate... failure" then I'm sorry to disappoint but I have time to make up those electives :D</p>

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<p>We need 4years of math and 3 of science or vice versa.</p>

<p>Also need 4 years English, 2 years language, 1 year of music, and 40 community service hours, and a reflection about them at the end.</p>

<p>Pretty weak, I wish they required 4 math/science/language and more service hours.</p>

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<p>The 2 semesters required fine arts at my school is pretty useless, in my opinion.</p>

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<p>Yea…we have lame requirements like gym, an art credit and leadership techniques.
I find the leadership techniques the stupidest class cause we don’t actually ever do any leadership techniques! I wanted to take AP US Gov’t and Microeconomics in its place but noooo. All the other requirements are typical.</p>

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<p>Alaska Studies is the worst one.</p>

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<p>Yeah we have basic core class requirements too. I don’t really mind those because most colleges look for those anyway.</p>

<p>But as I see, most of us need something like music or art. It just takes away from the high school experience we REALLY want…</p>

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<p>4 years of math, science, history and english. Have the basic P.E. requirements (I do sports though so it isn’t an ish) semester of speech, semester of health, two years of language, year of art, year of BCIS (which is teaching us how to use word, and excel and all of the other microsoft office things. Shoot me0 plus like a certain amount of additional electives.</p>

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<p>At our school, we can do either foreign language or fine arts/music to fulfill the requirement, so it works out. I’m fine with all of our requirements except the 4 YEARS OF GYM, which I think is ridiculous.</p>

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<p>We have health, the dumbest class ever, the whole semester is based on the most obvious things imaginable.</p>

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<p>^Haha, except they give all the obvious, intuitive things a bunch of names that we have to memorize. Oh health…</p>

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<p>4 credits English, 3.5 credits Social Studies, 3 credits Mathematics, 3 credits Science, 2 credits Arts/Humanities, 5.5 credits Electives, .5 credits Health (HATE), .5 credit Computer, .5 credit Teenage Issues (HATE), 1 credit Physical Education (HATE).
I’ll graduate with 25.8 credits, which is more than enough, but they’re not in the right categories. I hope they’ll overlook that, because it’s freaking hard to fit in enough arts and electives when you’re on the AP track.</p>

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<p>eh… i don’t think taking 2 languages at once or taking a science and compsci should allow you to not take a history</p>

<p>other than that, the only “weird” grad requirement is that we have to carve a plaque that goes on a wall in school. but that’s not really weird…</p>

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<p>We have a requirement for 2 credits of fine arts/business electives, 2 “other electives”, .5 teen health and .5 gym (school changed from 1 credit half way through my sophomore year randomly so a lot of people have 1 credit).</p>

<p>Oh and freshman social studies is stupid - .5 civics/.5 econ… they use the 7th grade civics curriculum and repeat it and draw it out. </p>

<p>as well as: 4 credits math, 4 english, 3 science, 3 social studies, 2 language.
Thankfully my school is pretty flexible and we can do test out things where we don’t have to take it, as well as summer school, Community college, and online things.</p>

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<p>4 years of gym, 2 years of art or music, semester of computer science, semester of health, 4 years of religion</p>

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<p>It’s not stupid per se, since it’s quite useful for college but you need at least 100 (or was it 75?) to graduate with the school’s diploma. Of course, IB requires more (though we’re waived the phys. ed and fine arts electives, as well as economics/government) so we graduate with both the IB (if we get it) and High School diploma.</p>

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<p>1 semester of health, 2 semesters of gym (sports don’t count for credit), 2 semesters of fine/performing arts.</p>

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<p>Hop into the deep side of the pool and swim the width…actually, not even swim. Just get to the other side without drowning. Many kids doggy paddle.</p>

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<p>4 years english, 2 years math, 3 years science (at least one bio, one phys, one chem), one semester health, a year of computers, a year of fine arts, 2 years of PE, 2 years of foreign language, 2 years PE</p>

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<p>Class of 2013 and below:</p>

<p>4 years of english, 4 years of math, 3 years of social studies, 3 years of science, 3 years of an elective, 1.5 years of gym, 2 years of a foreign language, 1 year of fine arts, a semester of personal finance</p>

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<p>Um, we have a religion requirement. One time, this girl got in a terrible car accident and managed to make up every class online, etc through credit but couldn’t make up religion because its “required” class time; you need a certain number of hours to graduate. They wouldn’t give her a diploma so she was held back another year. Her only class was religion. ***.</p>