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>>9 Yes, Gym class is a waste of time. My mom had to have 4 years of gym in high school. It should be up to the parent. However, with 2/3 of the population overweight and 1/3 obese, obviously the parents are too fat and lazy for such nonsense.
Also, I had to take "one and a half" years of gym when I went to high school. The quotes becuase the one semester of gym was literally textbook work. Now THAT'S a waste of time. I also feel that gym should be more about exercise and less on how to exercise and dodge ball.
It's the person's decision to be fat, but someone has to be there for the child and show them the importance of health. Otherwise the kids would be too lazy too run around and play. Have you seen how many kids that would rather sit and play on their computer rather than play outside? When my parents were children, that's all they did! It's good to start good habits.
>>10 It depends on the school system. When I went to school, all we learned was how to pass the tests. Half way throguh the year, we'd have practice tests which require extra hard studying as well as at the end of the year.
Like, okay. You can argue pretty damn well the importance of math, science, and writing. Reading comprehension? No. There is no logical reason why I have to be able to read a book about a dog running up the hill then tell you WHY the damned dog ran up the hill. No reason at all.
And maybe give a few more electives to high school students, yeah? When I went, there wasn't much. All pretty much the same importance and science and math when it came to determining your college major.
You pretty much had art, band, orchestra, theater, and the basic shit. There was "intro to business management" which you pretty much bullshat a class on using Microsoft word then played games on the computer the rest of the time.
Like, there was no workshop, programming, or any other exploratory classes that'd give someone a taste of what they could do for the rest of their life. So when you graduate, you don't know what all of the options are, and you're left o do that exploring in college.
By the way, need I point out that you're supposed to figure out what you want to do before college? So you can A) choose a major and B) choose a school. Since some schools are better know for certain programs than others (and not all colleges have the same programs).
When I was a junior in HS, I pretty much decided "something that involves math. I'm good at math." I had no driving passion of something I liked to do. My sister eventually was like "Do this. You like this!" I had no idea what that was, but decided, "Sure. That sounds fun!" The major turned out completely different from what I expected, and I didn't find out until after I started classes for the major (because there's core classes then core for the college). So changing majors and therefor colleges was too much of a pain.
Eventually, I decided I like it, I'm good at at, and it's interesting, but by then it's like, "I should have known that years ago. Now I have to figure out what I want to do after this." Half way through college.
