Would you rather take a class that you enjoy and will use to your advantage in the future or take a class to fulfill set requirements in order to complete highschool? In my opinion, students should be able to choose which academic courses they take based on their interests. Most students already have the opinion that taking subjects like history, math, science, and English are unnecessary because they won't use what they learn later in life. For example, a student who is looking to pursue becoming a children’s therapist shouldn’t have to take math classes through highschool; They should be able to take a class that is related to that career.
If students are given the opportunity to choose classes that they enjoy or better understand, they will be more eager to learn and are more likely to engage in the material. In addition, engaging in class more often will result in better grades and an overall better GPA because they’re more comfortable and better understand the topic. This would also decrease the dropout rate and students would be less likely to have to repeat a class or a grade. Many students fail classes just becaust they don't understand the subject or aren't interested in it so it's hard for them to focus in class. Some may think that there aren’t enough teachers to teach such a variety of courses, but many classes can be taught online or through colleges.
Another argument may be that if students choose not to take certain subjects, they’ll never get a basic understanding of that topic. However, students who are not good at a subject or just don’t like it in general are never going to get a full understanding of it if they don’t like the class. In addition, certain requirements can be set to limit this. Examples of this could be not being able to choose your classes until you reach highschool, being required to take classes that involve certain life skills sometime throughout high school, having a limit to how many extracurricular classes you can take (like art, music, or PE), and more. I believe students should have a choice as to what classes they take throughout high school with certain requirements because they will have a higher engagement level, will have better grades, and will have a better understanding of the subjects they’re taking.
Questions:
- Do you think that students should be able to choose their academic classes?
- What do you want as your future career?
- If you were given a larger variety of classes to choose from, what classes would you be interested in taking for your future career?
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I agree with you. If students take classes based on their future career, they will already have an idea of what they're getting into when they enter college. This would also allow them to take even more classes in college and they would know more about their job.
Yeah, it should be their choice. I know many parents will choose thier kids classes because they want them to be more accedemically smart. Which is bad in my opinion because maybe that student wants to be in a music or art class, but they can't because their schedule is full.
I agree with you. Students should be able to pick their own classes based on what they're interested in. If their schedule is already full because of their required classes and the classes they are being forced to take, they can't do that.
I believe that students should be able to choose the classes they desire. I don't think that students should be able to skip needed classes. However, I believe that students should be able to choose at least half of their class to be similar to what they want to be in the near future.
I agree with you. If students are already sure of their future career, they should be able to choose more classes based on that. This would also help with college and future learning.
In my opinion, Students should be able to choose which classes to take. If the classes are up to the students they can focus on classes that will benefit them in the future. This decision should be able completely up to the students. If these students do not want to take that basic classes, that should be up to them. When students view regulatory classes as unuseful they could be using that time to learn something that they view as useful.
I agree with you. If students already know what they want as their future career, then they should be able to choose their classes. If they are unsure, then they should still be able to take the classes we have required now. Students would pay more attention if they were interested in what classes they're in.
In my opinion, I think students should be able to choose the classes they take with the ones that are required. I want to be a cardiology nurse practitioner and I would need to take more science classes and some others. I think we should offer more online classes that students can take to help them with their future career.
I agree with you. If more classes are offered, then students will be able to take more classes in college and will know more about their future career.
I think students should have to take the core classes but get to pick their extra classes. If they get to take extra classes they enjoy they will be more willing to come to school and wanna learn. I do think they should have to take the 4 core classes at least.
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