<p>How about 4 years of Health and 6 of Gym? (My high school's 7-12)</p>
<p>Gym is actually the only required class senior year.</p>
<p>^OUCH.</p>
<p>My school requires a year (2 semester classes) of "practical arts." I took both classes online; my favorite was called "Project: Personal Development."</p>
<p>FOUR years of Health and PE. Required all four years, though they are one class or technically two half year classes. Health=waste of time. And I just don't like PE because I'm horrible at sports.</p>
<p>2 years of PE <--not fun in a public school.</p>
<p>All the religion courses I've had to take... four full years of them! All culminating next year when I have to write a 25 page paper discussion "what I've learned" in them! Eck!</p>
<p>Either 1.5 yrs of PE or the semester-long health class that takes up a disproportionately large amount of time for its importance.</p>
<p>The three semesters of PE and one semester of health are both equally useless. Thankfully we can take them during summer school so we don't have to waste a class period on them during the school year.</p>
<p>at my school the requirements are some number of credits, and arts requirement, and athletic requirement. i hate the arts requirement because i had to take Public Speaking and it was so easy, except it just looks stupid on my transcript with all of my tough courses. </p>
<p>Also, I know a lot of kid at my school loathe the athletics requirement. It's 2 years of physical work i guess. Freshmen year everyone has PE, but that's it. to fulfill the 2nd year you have to either play a jv/varsity sport, play intramurals, or be a manager of a team. I've heard a few kids haven't graduated because of this requirement!</p>
<p>4 years of gym. </p>
<p>I don't mind these, but other people complain about them:
4 years social studies, 4 years English</p>
<p>Most seniors take only those 3 classes and then leave at 10:00. Good luck getting accepted to college.</p>
<p>i need 50 hours of service, 50 of creativity and 50 of action, but i think ill add another 230 hours of service for college reasons</p>
<p>^^ I know of a lot of people who are doing something similar to that, except it's a school rule that a student have at least four classes. Each class lasts for like an hour so they get out around 12:30. You guys start school like at 7?</p>
<p>Wow, I feel lucky now, reading some of these posts.</p>
<p>Health at my school is absolutely retarded, but luckily, it's only a semester. But it's basically a semester of listening to the varsity baseball coach lecture 40 kids about random "health concepts." And when he's not lecturing, we're watching a video. I'm pretty sure they needed someone to teach the class and stuck a coach in there. Kinda like my freshman civics class :-)</p>
<p>Fine arts. Ugh. I have no musical or artistic talent. They refuse to combine fine and practical arts (which would be nice, because I took a foods class as a sophomore). I'm talking Art History (they won't even offer AP) second semester senior year. How's that for cutting it close?</p>
<p>I should've tested out of the computer requirement. That was a waste of a perfectly good semester. I ended up teaching my friends in that class how to do all the stuff the teacher was supposed to be teaching us.</p>
<p>As for graduation practice, it's only like two hours the day of. Guess I'm somewhat lucky there, too.</p>
<p>I'm actually glad that I have to take Art. I love art, but I probably would have taken some AP classes instead of it if art wasn't mandatory.</p>
<p>What I hate most is health. A whole semester wasted doing busy work over common sense. I guess some people don't know that eating McDonald's everyday is not really the best choice they could have made.</p>
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<p>Yes, school starts at 7:00, each class is 40 minutes and there are nine periods. Sometimes this backfires big time, because the three classes could be 2nd period, 6th period, and 9th period, and the seniors just sit around in school all day. Some people even double up on english and social studies junior year, and just take gym senior year.</p>
<p>The P.E. requirement was perhaps the most pointless. Luckily, it was only half a semester</p>
<p>The world geo freshman class was perhaps the most useless. I learned absolutely nothing in it.</p>
<p>We have a ridiculous culminating project too... it's definitely the worst grad requirement in my opinion!</p>
<p>definitely PE, Art, and Study Hall.</p>
<p>Health/PE. I took Health/Life Management Skills online, which was utter BS, but I had to take Personal Fitness/Recreation in school and all we did was sit in the gym and play board games. Both were just a waste of time.</p>
<p>I'm so glad that we're allowed to double up on the practical arts requirement instead of doing fine arts. I'd hate to have to take art or something lame where no real learning occurs.</p>
<p>Wow, your health classes sound horrible. We had all these guest speakers show us pictures of STDs and have us examine silicon boobs with tumors. This one flamboyant openly gay speaker from Planned Parenthood has become a legend in my school.</p>
<p>Electives 10char</p>