Re: #37
That adds up to 24 course-years, which would be a full schedule with no electives (other than choice of which foreign language) in high schools with 6 course schedules. It would mean only 4 course-years of electives in high schools with 7 course schedules.
The specified math also assumes accelerated sequencing compared to the typical sequencing in the US.
For comparison, when I went to high school, the actual high school graduation requirements were something like:
- 4 years of English composition and literature were required, but the literature component emphasized English (UK) only in one of the years. The other years in the usual sequence had different emphases like American literature, or other literature translated to English.
- 1 year of US history, plus 1 year of other history or social studies was required.
- Civics was required, but was only a semester course.
- Economics, CS, and logic were not required (logic was not offered, unless you count proofs in geometry as such).
- An art or music course was required, but students could choose practice/performance or history.
- Foreign language was not required.
- Science and math requirements allowed for a significantly lower level of achievement.
- 2 (or maybe 3) years of PE were required. Swimming was required as one of the PE activity choices (each activity was 1/2 semester long) if one did not pass a swimming test given in 9th grade.
- A semester of health was required.