<p>2 art/music classes, however, not every art or music class counts towards graduation. Only certain classes that have been deemed worthy by the administration can be taken for credit towards graduation.</p>
<p>^so what exactly is worthy/unworthy at your school?</p>
<p>Health/PE. At least my teacher was hot.</p>
<p>Lucky son of mother…</p>
<p>2 Semesters PE
1 Semester Technology Credit
1 Semester of Speech
1 Semester of “Global Perspectives”
1 Semester of Health
4 Years English/Social Studies
3 Years Math/Science
1 Year Economics
1 Year Government
1 Senior Project </p>
<p>Some amount of Fine Arts credits (taking band and foreign languages quickly filled mine so I’m not sure what the real requirement is)</p>
<p>We also need a certain amount of “elective credits”, which is everything not already said. </p>
<p>Along with proficient on all the state standard achievement tests (which I reached proficiency in, in late elementary school).</p>
<p>Ohh yea. We also have to pass these really stupid tests called Gateway/EOC (end of course) tests or we don’t graduate; the scores go on our transcripts which SUCKS. We’re tested in:</p>
<p>English 9
English 10
English 11 Essay test
Physical Science
Biology 1
US History
Algebra 1
Algebra 2</p>
<p>Does anyone else do this…?</p>
<p>Yeah we have EOIs, or end of instruction exams we have to pass for pretty much all of those above, though I think we have more essays. However they are RIDICULOUSLY easy. Well for a good student anyway. Literally, I could count on my hands how many questions I’ve missed in all my years of taking them.</p>
<p>Lucky; ours are the exact opposite. Well, in Bio anyway. I think the highest score anyone at our school has ever made was a 90, which is a B.</p>
<p>One time our English test had a passage all about Chuch Norris. Apparently it was applicable since he’s from Oklahoma (where I live). But that just kind of shows you how ridiculous they are lol…I cracked up the entire time.</p>
<p>Lol! Last year our English test had a picture of a frustrated man sitting in front of a computer. Our choices were:</p>
<p>Man vs Environment
Man vs Man
Man vs Animal
Man vs Himself</p>
<p>I wrote “strugglin’” on the picture :)</p>
<p>Graduation requirements:</p>
<p>8 semesters of English
4 semesters of Math
4 semesters of Science (1 Earth and 1 Life Science)
2 semesters of World History
2 semesters of U.S. History
1 semester of Economics
1 semester of U.S. Government
6 semesters of P.E. RAWRRRRRRRRRRRR
2 semesters of Visual/Performing Arts
A bunch of electives</p>
<p>PE through frosh and soph years–even for athletes. Even if you’re a triple varsity athlete, you’re not getting out of it.</p>
<p>College and Career: dumbest course ever. Plus, as a CC nerd I knew WAY more than our teacher lol.
Health: Oh, wait, I think this might be the dumbest class ever. I had it at 7:30 am. The irony of learning about how important sleep is after waking up at 6 ****ing am did not escape me. Not to mention my teacher was a complete idiot…</p>
<p>We have to take health. Uh, it’s so trivial.</p>
<p>Art requirement; can’t graduate without it. Better to get it out of the way freshman or sophomore year than sit there as a senior with a huge ‘I’d rather be self-studying’ sign on your forehead.</p>
<p>I envy the people who can use foreign languages credits for that.</p>
<p>My class was required to do a semester of gym and health. I took it as a freshman and I’m ****ed now because they combined it into one class when we moved to block schedule.</p>
<p>Health. Gym every year. Theology daily every year. And 4 years of a language.</p>
<p>IB Requirements:</p>
<p>Language. No Ab initio classes.</p>
<p>School Requirement.
Art class: Got this done with public speaking.</p>
<p>Worthy: Studio Art, Chorus, Band, Orchestra, Music In Our Lives
Unworthy: Music Theory, Digital Photo, Painting, Drawing, Sculpture</p>
<p>One semester of health. A waste of time, seriously. I just spend that class studying for tests or doing homework. 
How I have a 109% still amazes me.</p>
<p>Yea, we need 1.5 credits of PE. Not a ton I know, but it’s such a waste of time. Especially for people like me who already train 10+ hrs a week, and they still wouldn’t waive it for me.</p>