<p>student here,
Learning by yourself sounds liek a bad idea. Maybe a quick read-through to get the gist, but nothing in depth. And ewww who wants to do homework?
9 foreign languages? how bout no. Offer Chinese or spanish.
Selecting and art form as a 7 year old? Wow. That’s way too early. They cannot even grasp the concept of feelings behind pieces etc until theyre in high school. And I know my preference of media used in art changed like 2 times so far in high school.
I dont get the difference between english and literature. Most schools, even the AP exams, preface courses with “English” then “literature” or “Language and composition”
Online courses sound horrible. I firmly believe that a classroom is basically necessary for a “good” education in the subject.</p>
<p>Overall, decent idea. It’s not that different from a lot of schools except that you start takign languages in elementary school and then later on focus on one field. Its basically forcing kids to focues towards their career in high school like the overachieving kids do(meticulously planning each and every course because heaven forbid they take anatomy instead of biology 1 year).
Big problem would be if the kids interest changes. Then what? Theyre forced to gai nan education for a field they will hate/not enter? Or be behind?</p>
<p>also, I like livesinnewjersey’s wish that history focuses more on patriotism. Too many history books are written that pose the US as a state of horrible monsters that rape and pillage every country on earth. I don’t think I have ever had a book that wasn’t at least slightly unnationalistic.</p>
<p>also, also, I agree with ucsd<em>ucla</em>dad or at least Marian. Honestly, (at least here)barely any students retain the language. Some might be able to use it to scrape by on vacation in Paris or whatever, 2% of the kids might use Spanish in their business, althought 1.99% of them already knew how to speak spanish. Teaching them other stuff would be more practical, because even if they are semi-fluent, then how will it help for many of them? Not much better to be only fluent enough for an informal conversation. Then you can’t conduct a business meeting or anything anyways meanwhile the person that took economics or something those 6 years would know something.</p>