<p>What would you change?
Personally I would make a few changes:
*Remove PE as a requirement.
*Add a programming course, such as APCS or Java as a requirement.
*Allow students to test out of the foreign language requirement.
*Allow seniors holding a wGPA of at least a 3.9 to graduate without needing to complete the graduation project.</p>
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But great things happened in PE class :(</p>
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You’d be surprised how many students that can verbally speak another language can’t write for their lives. Also, why not just learn another language?</p>
<p>Get rid of PE or provide alternative means to fulfill the requirement. I will exercise all you want, just not in front of people.
Make foreign language required. I didn’t take it as a freshman because my school didn’t require it, but it turns out a lot of colleges want it and it would have been helpful to know that.
We have three or four random required classes about growing up in which we basically do nothing. Get rid of those.</p>
<p>Remove PE. It’s unfair that even people wit medical conditions can’t get out of it. It’s the reason I didn’t get straight A’s freshman year</p>
<p>For me I would:
-Give the option to finish High School at junior year (but that would require a mass education reform)
-Remove Foreign Language requirements. Seriously I know many people in my family that took a foreign language class and they barely remember. They can either do that or add more variety. I’m sure more people at my school would be more interested in learning Japanese then German.
-Remove the 4 years of english… enough said. I would have done everyone a great favor. (also this would require a mass reform)
-I think for PE in rachel condition they should require a medical confirmation that that person cannot praticate and it should not count against her/him.</p>
<p>Remove PE as a requirement (my school makes us take two years of it) because I could’ve taken other required classes/classes that would’ve been more helpful to me instead.</p>
<p>I’d only have a semester of PE. New York makes you take FOUR YEARS of it and I think it’s stupid. Plus, you’re graded on how good you are at the sport, not on if you tried hard and participated. :/</p>
<p>@Niquii77:
I’m quadrilingual(Portuguese, English, Spanish, and Mandarin), and I still had to take Spanish I&II at my school. I could have used those spaces for a more STEM-based curriculum.</p>
<p>Speaking of English, I would also change the curriculum to be focused more on grammar. I mean, high schools are sending kids that cannot tell the difference between there/they’re/their, your/you’re, and its/it’s to college. </p>
<p>Another thing I’d change here would be to remove the rule that forbids non-seniors from taking Calculus. If my school would just stop throwing DJ parties and actually use that money to hire teachers that specialize in Calc III or other college math, we wouldn’t be having this math-less senior year problem.</p>
<p>-Get rid of Tech as a requirement (stupidest requirement EVER)
-Allow you to get PE credit by sports/physical activities outside of school
-Allow you to pass the AP US Gov exam and then not have to take the class</p>
<p>Even though I loved PE, I don’t think it should be a requirement; instead, physical activities should be pursued on our own. This would also allow for a greater number of academic classes. </p>
<p>Also, at my school we are required to take a Health and Safety course. This is completely ridiculous as the class in a joke anyway and we learn most of the stuff from a) our parents and b) biology class.</p>
<p>Another weird requirement at my school is that we have to take the college prep version before the AP version for any science class. This means that since I wanted to take AP Chemistry and AP Physics, I was forced to take CP Chemistry and CP Physics in addition. I constantly found myself bored in those classes since I already knew the material.</p>
<p>Remove the mandatory online class requirement. Not everyone can have access to a computer to take an online class…</p>
<p>Remove PE as a requirement</p>
<p>And these aren’t graduation requirements, but more of schedule issues:
Allow students to have more options for summer classes
And allow students to take 8 credits a year (we can only take 7, and must take a free period due to financial issues in our school district >:/)</p>
<p>Remove the year requirements. 4 years of English, 3 years of History, US and World are mandatory for two of those years, etc, etc.</p>
<p>I would so rather have just a minimum credit requirement and get to choose whatever classes to take.</p>
<p>I’d allow people who do school sports or activities of athletic nature as well as verifiable outside sports or activities of athletic nature opt out of PE.</p>
<p>That’s about it.</p>
<p>I would remove Art I as a requirement.</p>
<p>Sent from my SPH-D710 using CC</p>
<p>Remove Health, PE, History, Gov and Art. They should add AP Chem, AP Physics C E and M, AP Comp Sci, IB Chem HL, Further IB Math.</p>
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<li>Make it an option to complete health online/do PE outside of school</li>
<li>Require that students complete at least algebra 2 (we have people who take algebra 1, geometry and then two years of blow-off classes)</li>
<li>Require three years of language instead of two</li>
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<p>^ RPreZZ, I wouldn’t want to remove the subjects you don’t like in the school just because you don’t like them/they’re not your forte. I think a lot of those end up being what kids want to major in. Personally, I can’t stand math and wish we had more classes in psychology/cognitive science/etc.</p>
<p>And yeah, PE is dumb. That’s what after-school sports are for.</p>
<p>Make AP English Language and Composition count towards 11th grade English for graduation. (If you take it, you still have to take Honors English 11)</p>
<p>Take away math during senior year requirement–too bad there is one senior that already finished AP Calculus BC / AP Statistics and has to go to the community college and even the college doesn’t allow the person to move on to Multi-variable / DE etc to meet this requirement.</p>
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Well, in my school you’d be able to test out of those classes. Then you’d have to do a level III or higher. I still say learn another language or brush up on one you already know. Languages are beneficial.</p>
<p>Get rid of the visual and performing arts requirement! Some of us are artistically challenged!</p>