<p>^Agreed. It’s not being biased, it’s being fair. </p>
<p>Yeah, to put it bluntly, there are a lot of people that could use some exercise in schools these days, but that’s not fair to make healthy, in shape athlete take PE, it’s a waste of a class. I do sports, and do not need PE. It is a waste of a class. </p>
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<p>Oh yes. The gym uniforms we have to wear… -_-
I would rather wear just my own stuff than the ugly matching clothes they make us wear.</p>
<p>How in the world is it biased? Sports aren’t some exclusive, elitist club … anybody can join sports at most schools. I think allowing for that exemption is fair and it also encourages kids who wouln’t normally play a sport to get out there and try something new. People new to sports can try out something less demanding, like golf or tennis. (Of course, medical exemptions would be made as necessary.)</p>
<p>Don’t forget medical exemptions! Anyone with a valid medical excuse or anyone who plays sports should be able to get out of gym. </p>
<p>Honestly, I don’t know any overweight people who were helped by having gym required. It was just a waste of time and only caused me pain and dizziness. If I hadn’t been required to take gym, I could’ve taken AP Euro before the school got rid of it. I wrote a whole research paper on why we need to get rid of the gym req in 9th grade for my English class.</p>
<p>The problem is that not everyone can play sports if they wanted to. But still I agree with both point</p>
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<p>It’s biased and unfair because you’re allowing athletes to take an extra class (or have a free class). You’re giving them a special privilege because they’re athletes. Which gives off an air of favoritism towards them.</p>
<p>-Remove the 2 semesters of PE and Fine Arts as a requirement to graduate.</p>
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<li><p>Make 3 semesters of math required (currently 2). </p></li>
<li><p>Add a better Organic Chem class. </p></li>
<li><p>Let freshmen take Physics/Chemistry/Biology instead of Environmental Science. </p></li>
<li><p>Make the Linear Algebra class a legitimate math course, rather than a filler period for doing homework. </p></li>
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<p>-(Not exactly a graduation requirement) Teachers shouldn’t be allowed teach AP classes like a test prep class. A lot of supplementary material needs to be added to some of these classes (<em>cough</em> AP Chem <em>cough</em>).</p>
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<p>That’s why I dropped AP Lit. We weren’t gonna do anything that wasn’t test prep until after the test.</p>
<p>“Teachers shouldn’t be allowed teach AP classes like a test prep class.”</p>
<p>I don’t think you guys would like school here then, all we ever do is test prep for GCSEs, AS levels and A levels.</p>
<p>I wish we’d at least finish the material, though. My AP Bio class moves kinda slow and I’m afraid we’ll be missing half the stuff we need.</p>
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<p>Which is why there are students at Cambridge that know little UK history other than Henry VIII and World War II…</p>
<p>^ Except that our exams cover a little more than that. 9th and 10th grade I’m doing Germany 1918-39, Russia/USSR 1914-45, International Relations/Cold War 1945-90, then British history WW1 and WW1 and 2 the wars at sea.
The two years after that I’ll be doing a mix of the civil rights movement in the US, China, Tudor Britain, WWI (my favourite topic :D) and I think the middle east. We may be more exam focused, but that doesn’t mean our education system is worthless.</p>
<p>Unless said Cambridge students didn’t take any history past 8th grade, which about a third won’t have.</p>
<p>I don’t really get your point, I’m just pointing out that it was wrong.</p>
<p>-Drop gym altogether, or at least reduce it to a one year requirement (we have to take 3 years ughh)
-Get rid of required classes which are meant to teach about surviving life and actually teach you to survive hours of boredom
-Allow more electives
-More flexibility in course selections (I hate those rules about juniors/seniors only in all the cool art classes at our school)</p>
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<p>It was a joke. My history teacher from last year got a masters from Cambridge and said he saw several incoming students who were experts on Tudor Britain and World War II but knew almost nothing of the English Civil War and most other things that happened between the 1600 and 1900.</p>
<p>Honestly, I don’t believe that the graduation requirements are that unreasonable. Yeah, PE sucks for most academically oriented students, but I’m sure kids who excel at gym aren’t too thrilled with the concept of taking English for 4 years. I think it’s naive to complain about courses that are mandatory the first year; whether you have a personal preference for art or not, it is good to have diverse courses for many reasons - meeting new people, learning things you normally wouldn’t, challenging yourself in a different way. When you first go into high school, you don’t have a clear idea of your future. Having lots of mandatory courses gives structure at first, so you become educated in a general sense before you specialize your courses as you get further into high school.</p>
<p>Yea I would eliminate the 4 years of english, drop the term paper to the third year. They want us to explore classes yet they require “this amount”. PE at my school is only one year so it doesn’t bother anyone here.</p>
<p>Graduation Project*** totally not needed. They put more stress in students, financial stress, some kids work full time jobs and have no transportation other than the bus. My school (just completed GP) required most of us to stay until almost 6 that night. Ridiculous! </p>
<p>Career Pathways** At my school you have to have 4 years of the same thing other than math/English/science/history. So either 4 Foreign Lang, 4 Foods, 4PE etc etc</p>
<p>That’s about it. The other stuff is basically good.</p>
<p>@SerenityJade sorry! I guess it’s possible, we have a lot more freedom in subject choice here :)</p>
<p>Remove PE. There is absolutely no point to having it as a requirement, and it limits your opportunities to take classes that actually matter.</p>
<p>Remove the Oral Communications requirement. I learned absolutely nothing from that class. I’m pretty sure that by senior year and four years of giving oral reports in class, I know how to speak to people.</p>
<p>Make 4 years of English a requirement. It’s amazing how many seniors at my school still struggle with “your” vs. “you’re,” or don’t know the difference between “there,” “their,” and “they’re.”</p>
<p>Remove P.E and one semester of health which totally screws up my senior year now that I have a class full of freshmen next semester because I transferred sophomore year and this was not a requirement of my previous school! End rant…</p>
<p>Either remove PE or make it so if you do a sport you don’t have to take it.
Besides that, maybe remove tech, because a lot of people end up taking it over the summer and it’s really expensive and you don’t learn much.</p>