Music :/ I mean normal everyday music is good, but I don't find any reason why we have to dig deep

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Somebody has to dig deep in order to keep creating music.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Aw. D: At my school music classes are electives. I don't see why they would force it on people who aren't interested past elementary school.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I initially agreed, but when I thought about it, it's not that the subject has no value for learning - it's that we have no interest to learn it. :)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

History :/ It should be optional or something, because it seems pretty pointless to have to know about the past..

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Math. Not basic math. Higher level ridiculous math.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

To be fair though, most of the time you //choose// to take higher level math classes. For example, I'm in calculus this year, but my friends elected to take "the easy way out" and are in prestatistics.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Not all schools have different options. For me, i had to take caculus, or flunk because i didn't have a final math credit.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Foreign language. It's impossible to learn fluently in high school anyways unless you actually have a desire to learn it. Otherwise, it's just a waste because you forget it right after you're done with the class. You have to want to learn a language to actually learn it

by Anonymous 11 years ago

That's true with every class.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Eh, not true. I always remember things from my history classes and math classes even if I don't mean to. I think I'll use every other subject someway in my future career. I may use Spanish too I guess haha I just don't know it fluently and I just finished AP Spanish

by Anonymous 11 years ago

The point of high school math classes is not to become fluent, I guess you could say, in math, and the goal of a high school language class is not to become //fluent// in that class, even at the AP level. It's unlikely that anyone can become //fluent// in a language after the first bit of their life because of the critical period.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

That's true. I just feel like I wasted a lot of classes being forced to take 4 years of Spanish when I know I will probably only use level 1 Spanish, if any, after high school and college

by Anonymous 11 years ago

That may be true, but I think you're expecting too much from a course which is only meant to take students to a limited level.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

My AP class was taught in fluent Spanish and the test was all listening and responding in Spanish. It was most definitely meant to teach me how to fluently speak Spanish

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Again, not //fluent//. Have a good understanding of constructs? Yes. Be able to speak and listen to/comprehend the language? Yes. But not become a fluent speaker or be able to comprehend fluently. You can communicate effectively without being fluent, and effective communication is what standard, honors, AP, and IB classes at my school and others aim for, because, as I said, being fluent is highly improbable.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

High school is about exploring what you want to do with the rest of your life, and preparing for it. Sure, it's unlikely that I'll be a professional artist or trombone player, but it's nice, I think, that I have at least a superficial understanding of those classes.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

The only class I have taken in my high school career (I'm in my junior year) that has any practical applications to my life is personal finance. We're learning about banking, investing, and other financial concepts. We study steps to building wealth. That is something that everyone should take because it applies to everyone and is useful to everyone. Math, science, art, history, and all of the other classes that we're required to take are just plain useless for 90% of the people that take them. Yes, it's building a base of knowledge, but for what? Learning for the sake of learning is just silly, but that's what the American school system is. Learning for the sake of learning. And actually, the schools don't even do that right. With so much emphasis placed on grades, students aren't concerned with learning the material (for retention), they're concerned with passing the tests. Ask just about anyone that has graduated from high school. My sister, for example, graduated 9 years ago and she has already forgotten everything she studied and "learned" there. That's just how it goes. High school is only important because the people that decide who gets hired/admitted say that it is.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Seriously? That class is a joke at my school. NO ONE cares about it. However, I have heard that accounting was useful, but then again, that was from a girl who's parents are accountants. Also, I disagree with you about American schools learnign just for learning. We learn to pass a standardize test. If not that, we learn to go on to college. We go to college because our society has this idea in our heads that we can't be successful unless you get your degree and get a high-paying job. A high-paying job would be great, but I know that not everyone is meant to go to college, so it should be okay if people choose not to.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

The standardized tests that we spend our school careers studying for are just another branch of the educational system. Again, they only matter because the people that decide if you get into college say they matter. Everything between sixth grade and high school graduation (for most people) is just pointless. College actually prepares us for a career in our chosen field; they teach what you actually need to know to be successful in whatever occupation you choose. The fact that the only way to get there is by completing four years of what is essentially busy work is just ridiculous.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Personal Finance is a joke at my school as well. No one takes it seriously because it's so easy and dull. But regardless, the material taught in there is very informative and helpful.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

My mom never took physics, chemistry, or any math beyond Algebra 2. She went to Harvard and is successful - it all depends on if/how you use the knowledge you get from the classes

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Finnish literature... complete bs.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

English, after 8th grade its the same crap every year

by Anonymous 11 years ago

State history, especially if you live in a flyover state. Like, the ones that pay attention in class are probably moving to Texas after college, nobody cares about Will Rogers or Native American history, and I could be learning about cool shit rather than a bunch of shit about tornadoes.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Trick question. All of them.

by Anonymous 11 years ago