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, certain classes won't be needed for some future careers, however it's nice to have that knowledge. We should be offered more classes to choose from so that we are actually interested in what we're learning.
I think that should be able to choose what classes they want to take. I feel that if we get to take the classes that we want it would help with the certain things we want to be when we're older. I would like to be either some type of doctor or a teacher when I'm older.
I agree with you, we should be able to take classes that will benefit our future careers. However, we should have certain limits like not being able to ONLY take PE or art classes.
I think that students should be able to choose which classes they take based on what they want to do as a job. I would like to farm when I am older and there are many classes that I do not see as helpful. We should get more opportunities to do what will be advantageous to us in the future.
I agree with you. Many classes that we're required to take won't be helpful for being a farmer. I think that more online classes should be offered to us so that they will benefit us for our future careers.
I think we should be able to choose most of our classes. We shouldn't be able to just sign up for "chemistry" in 9th grade, there should be atlest some limits like we have right now. I like that we get to atlest choose if we wan't to take art or not.
I think that if a student is advanced enough, they should be able to sign up for that class. However, they should be able to choose classes based on what they're interested in and classes that will help them with their future career.
I think that students should be able to choose their own classes. Not every student is going to be doing the same profession, so why make them all do the same classes. I think that every student should at least have a basic knowledge of the core classes still. I still don't know exactly what I want to do with my future.
I agree with what you're saying, not every class that students are required to take will be useful for their future career. However, students should still be required to take certain classes up until highschool so that they at least have a basic understanding of the different academic classes.
I think all students should choose what classes they take but be reasonable with it. Students should still take the needed classes but also add in classes that they enjoy to do.
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