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, many careers involve and don't involve various subjects and won't be useful to students if they don't follow a career path involving that subject.
I think that students should be given the option to pick what academic classes they want to take because some classes might not have the student attention. I don't know what I want to do for my future career yet, and if there was a larger veriety I would consider taking a more woods class.
I agree, students should be able to take more classes that they're interested in so that they actually understand and listen to what they're being taught.
I believe that students should be given the option to pick what academic classes that they want to take because it doesn't make sense for them to do something they aren't interested in. I don't know what I want as my future career, and if there were a larger variety, I would consider taking more business-related classes.
I agree, if students are more interested in the classes they take, they're more likely to be engaged and that is also one of the reasons why students don't like school.
My future career would be a carpenter becuase I love wood working and buIlding things like in woods class I made a wood flag and stairs for my dog. I do carpentry when there is no school doing home improvements and adding on to house and buliding things for my neiborhood.
Our school doesn't offer many classes involving that career, so it would be nice for you or people like you to be able to take more classes involving carpentry.
I believe that students should be able to choose their academic classes. I think that because some people dont need the classes that another person is taking for their college degree. I want to be a teacher when I graduate. I would like to take metals but they got rid of it.
I agree, many careers don't need certain classes. Not everyone is going to follow the same career path so there's no need to take certain classes.
I think that students should be able to choose their classes. I still think it's important for everyone to take classes like math, science, and english. But I believe students should be able to advance from the mandatory classes and take more of those they like if their schedule allows it.
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