<p>CheerOutLoud you’re my new favorite person on these forums</p>
<p>that needs to GOOOOOOOOOOO</p>
<p>-Require 2 credits of PE, im tired of losing food size because parents don’t want to make their glaringly obvious obese kids exercise. :/</p>
<p>-Only allow Art to be taken Junior year, optionally, for those who don’t plan on using it in their college major, they don’t have to take it.</p>
<p>-Make Speech a full credit, people should learn how to talk in public better</p>
<p>-At least 1 credit in a class on, i guess, life? Like paying bills, dealing with debt, credit cards, cleaning, how to care for kids, that stuff would be pretty valuble to others.</p>
<p>-Change the physical education requirements from 4 years to anything lower.
-Change the foreign language requirement from one year to two years.
-Change the mathematics requirement from three years to four years (if English is required for four years, math should too)
-Make AP Gov a full year class instead of a half year class</p>
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<li>Make math required for 4 years as opposed to 3 years.</li>
<li>Allow exemption from PE if you’re in a sport.</li>
<li>Offer AP USH, so the three years of Social Studies requirements (US I, US II, and World Cultures) can potentially be compressed to two.</li>
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<p>*Remove PE and Arts requirements</p>
<p>@spaceduck: AP Art History 
Abusing the get out of artwork card for both high school and college graduation requirements.</p>
<p>Definitely remove gym as a requirement. Okay fitness is important, but most people who take it just sit there anyway… And I think allowing fluent speakers to test out is a pretty good idea. No sense in making them take unnecessary classes.</p>
<p>I actually think the degree requirements are fine for my class. I’m not sure about class of 2015 and after because they changed the requirements due to the new block scheduling…</p>
<p>Make pe a ec</p>
<p>@tangentline I have no artistic abilities whatsoever, and I would still so much rather take an Art class than sit through a year of AP Art History. Seriously, that class sounds painful.</p>
<p>My school doesn’t even require me to take Art, but the UCs do. I don’t understand the use of it.</p>
<p>Remove 3 years of history to 2. The 3rd year of history is a government/economic class. I don’t like those types of classes. So I’d rather have 2 years history (World and U.S.).</p>
<p>We have a weird system here, but basically I would:
-make it 2 hours of PE a week in sophomore year, not one
-PE in junior year as well (PE isn’t graded normally)
-no compulsory fine arts
-make 2 years of history compulsory (currently none)</p>
<p>-Allow German and Spanish together (atm it’s one of these and/or french)
-Give us some kind of US history, or pick an exam board that have it as part of World
-And for the whole of the UK, have a politics A Level that isn’t considered a joke by universities</p>
<p>I think everybody should have PE for four years to graduate. You can be exempt from PE if you play a sport, however, with one semester of PE waived for every year of each sport. (So if you play two or more sports all four years you don’t have to take any PE courses).</p>
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…That would totally be a thing for those athletes, and completely against everyone else.</p>
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<p>That doesn’t work with scheduling often. Or with funding.</p>
<p>Plus, it’s biased against everyone who is not an athlete.</p>
<p>@dtothe2nd your post reminded me that debate is an art credit at my school! I had totally forgotten! And it’s worth a full credit!</p>
<p>No More Gym! No More Gym! No More Gym!</p>
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. That’s also too radical. My school requires only 2 semesters (trimesters) of PE: one for the normal stuffs and the other for the swimming. I believe one year of gym would be enough to entrust a sense of exercising from an already obese nation.</p>
<p>I would change the rule to say that you can where whatever you want in gym. Seriously I had my stuffs stolen and that led to a D because I didn’t “dress” for 3 days. Also it would take off time spent in locker room which is a good 10 minutes.</p>
<p>I want a zero period… At my school we can only take 6 classes a year!</p>
<p>I agree that PE should not be required if you’re an athlete. My son was a three-season runner in high school who ran between30 and 50 miles a week and was still required to take gym! It was ridiculous. Occasionally, he would have to run a timed mile in PE for a grade on the same day as a meet. He always asked if he could delay the test for a day or two, and the teacher always said no. Grr.</p>