<p>Remove P.E.</p>
<p>I have soccer games at least three times a week, yet the school wants me to run around a track at 8am after I’ve just woken up and showered…uh, no.</p>
<p>Cut mandatory PE requirement down to 1 or 2 years.<br>
Get rid of mandatory courses like Graduation Transitions and Planning. I KNOW how to write a cover letter, thank you very much.<br>
Remove Social Studies 10 and 11 as requirements or let me study something that’s not ye olde Canadian farmers rioting with their pitchforks. </p>
<p>Current requirements I don’t mind: science for 3 years, English for 4 years, a fine arts/applied skill credit</p>
<p>Am I the only one here who loves PE? 
I’m not the best at it, but I still think it’s fun to run around, and it’s a good break from academic classes. It also helps me clear my mind of worries and think more rationally. Anyways, here are the things I would change about my high school’s graduation requirements:</p>
<p>Get rid of Economics and Personal Finance: Someone mentioned that this would be helpful. It might be, but the class at our school is chaos. The class is ridiculously boring, but the tests are hard and come from a plastic-surgery obsessed teacher who has openly insulted the President (these are just rumors 
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<p>Allow Computer Science as a tech course: I don’t know if this is the same for all schools, but technology is not just typing and drawing pictures on a screen. I think computer science is a more challenging course compared to the others, which are very easy in my school.</p>
<p>Don’t require 4 years of gym, 1 year of “research skills”, a financial literacy class, and visual and practical arts classes. Even though many others would love to take baking and drawing, I would much rather take more APs. </p>
<p>Also offer honors languages and offer APs for freshmen and sophomores.</p>
<p>Don’t get rid of the PE requirement. Only on CC, people complain about the PE requirement for graduation. I believe that the high school graduation requirements should be higher. But, the only problem with that is that classes will be dumbed down. Just doing one year of foreign language, geometry, and biology seems a bit too low.</p>
<p>Get rid of the Health class that isn’t helping anyone learn anything, and don’t force people to take 3 years of PE (or let them substitute sports for the PE). Don’t make us take those idiotic state tests that show pretty much nothing about our true talents. Stop forcing people to take an ACT-without-writing exam.</p>
<p>Give the freshmen AP World.
Don’t cut PE, change PE. Offer options, like yoga, zumba, gymnastics, dance, fencing (though this would only work in an all-girls school like mine)… Make it a schoolwide elective period.</p>
<p>*Get rid of gym requirement for sure.
*I think that a foreign language SHOULD be required. Mosy colleges look for at least two years.
*get rid of health requirement. It wastes a semester of my schedule when I could easily replace it wih a year long class.
*allow freshmen to take ap classes.</p>
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<p>Remove PE. And this may just be a requirement for my district, but also remove Health, stupidComputerTech [where you learn how to type! Whoopee! What a great year filled with learning magical unicorns!], and sewing. Yes, in our district, we have to f–king sew for two years in order to graduate.</p>
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<li>Get rid of Art History requirement. I really don’t see the point in such a class. Were it not for that requirement, I would’ve been able to take another AP class</li>
<li>Don’t limit the maximum amount of AP/Honors classes to 3</li>
<li>Have more AP classes</li>
<li>Don’t make every EC a “class” and then assign it a GPA. It drags our GPAs down.</li>
<li>Make Computer Science classes as electives. Learning Java was probably the subject that flew over my head the most.</li>
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<p>Idk why you guys don’t like PE so much, but I think it’s fun. It’s nice to do something non-academic during school and take a break from lectures.</p>
<p>I like how so many of you don’t like PE, but if your school offers the ability to opt out, debate is a sport, and it will count :3</p>
<p>I would get rid of the community service part. It’s fun meeting new people, but 70% of the volunteers are really just free labor.</p>
<p>Require 2 years of foreign language, not zero.
Make math go through trig/pre-cal (not that Alg. Connections crap).
No P.E. (this is debatable, though, because all my school’s P.E. classes let them sit and do nothing.)
Require chemistry, biology, and 2 other sciences.
These are a few changes I’d like to see in my school.</p>
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Well two of them is a sport at my school. I would change it to give alternative like no sport we got but make a free class where you can choose what you want to do for that day. Like you have to do all activities but you are not limited to “dressed up”. I think they shouldn’t eliminate the entire PE program but rather improve it. If they want students to take 4 years of gym then like present alternative to gym.</p>
<p>Descuff: My school actually offers fencing to one class- I missed it by one year…
The PE system is actually fortnightly rotating- one week sports at the gym, one week yoga and calisthenics.
I think that gym is necessary, because most people need the exercise, but they may as well offer options so people can have fun doing the exercise.
From the above options, I’d pick either yoga or fencing.</p>
<p>Get rid of the PE requirement! I took Dance freshman year (which was so fun!) and my school said it would count. Then, at the end of the year they changed their mind and I wasn’t given the credit -.-</p>
<p>I would also give more options for history class. They used to have European History, but they took that away. It sounded way more interesting than American History!</p>
<p>I would eliminate Work based learning points. (Points for things done outside of school) they are such a pain in the butt and so difficult to get. And now this year if the seniors don’t get them all done by march they are not allowed to purchase a prom ticket.
I dislike this very much -__-</p>
<p>Make Four Years of Science Required
Remove Swim as a requirement (Many students need every available course in their schedule)
Make Visual Arts 0.5 credit required instead of 1.5</p>