I agree with you. I honestly hate taking the classes I don't need for what I want to become outside of highschool. The thing is, you are expected to pass, or you don't get that credit. And if you don't get all your credits you dont graduate. This pisses me off. But hey, its life. It completely sucks most of the time, and its good part of the time.

I used to think like that, I'm hoping to be a carpenter so how in the hell will knowing when Christopher Columbus landed help me?

Now however, I look at it another way. Your employer doesn't care about the class you took, but rather how you did in the class. By showing up on time, and passing the class they see that you will put your time into the job.

I agree to a certain point. But, when am I ever going to use trigonometry again? I won't.

TayIor wrote I agree to a certain point. But, when am I ever going to use trigonometry again? I won't.

You never know.

Either way, your employer doesn't care what you learn, they care that you stuck through it, and learned something you think you'll never used because that's what you where told to do.

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TayIor wrote I agree to a certain point. But, when am I ever going to use trigonometry again? I won't.

You never know.

Either way, your employer doesn't care what you learn, they care that you stuck through it, and learned something you think you'll never used because that's what you where told to do.

I see what you mean, but i would rather stick with classes that i like rather than classes taht i will most likely never use.

Same here. I'm like in your same position so I mean I feel like that also.

Continuous wrote Im am currently a sophmore in high school, and i hear this all the time, and sometimes they are right. I believe that we should not have to go through classes that are not going to help us in life for example unless your planning on being a scientist then you should not have to take chemistry, biology, etc. But there are also students who say that they shouldn't have to take certain classes, they say "I don't even learn anything", and this really makes me furious partially because roughly 90% of these students are the types of students who choose not to learn, they would rather play paper basketball or sleep. But some classes are very helpful and we need them like personal financial literacy and things of that nature.

When I was in high school I never thought this. This was never a point where I thought, " I don't need this, I will never use this". That is a odd way of looking at it. The random classes that you take help you be a well rounded person. Sure, you may never use it but it is still good to have.

I am a junior in college. I have used almost everything I have learned in high school so far. Regardless of your major, you WILL have to go through a science class, higher level math (most majors need trig), and language classes. These are all your liberal arts classes. When people claim that they will never use something again, or they never learned things in the class doesn't mean its not important. They will be the ones that get effected by it.

Having these skill help you through college and possibly get jobs after high school. If an employer can higher someone that is better at math than someone who isn't, they will do it in a heart beat.

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Axe wrote The matter of the fact is though, its good in highschool to learn all of these subjects because plans change.

You might go into highschool thinking you want to be a mechanic, and by the end totally change your mind and realize that to do what you want to do now, you need 4 years of highschool chemestry, biology and math.

Highschool sets you up to make a proper decision when you are old enough to make that decision and for the most part tries to keep all of your possible doors open for that selection.

For instance, lets say you go into highschool thinking you want to work in an autoshop out of highschool. You then realize that you won't make as much money as you need, and you want to go to university for lets say a business program. You are going to need to go back to grade 10 math classes because you need grade 10 to complete gr11 and gr12 math, ect.

It just seems to make the most sense to keep some courses manditory for highschool.

School should prepare you for life, and by life i mean things like how to do taxes or how to manage money not what a Pythagorean triple. HIgh school should teach you things that you need to know in life, not things that you might need to now if you change your mind. College should be for teaching things like chemistry and calculus. You should not be forced to do something that you don't want to do. And for the most part, the classes that i take in high school are not going to help me in what i want to do. Yes it is good to have a "basic" knowledge of many subjects, but i would rather takes classes that i enjoy and want to learn about rather than being forced to take classes. I think that part of the reason that many students don't like a certain subject is because they are forced to take it. If i had never taken chemistry then i would not have ever hated it like i do now.

That just means that if you do choose to take university for lets say math, you are going to have to take like 8 years instead of 4 because you need to learn everything you would've learned in highschool in university, therefore spending more money on tuition, more time on in school, and more time not contributing to the job market.

I think people need to agree on what the role of High school is. My high school continues to stress that the role of the teachers is to prepare you for college, which means high school is not to necessarily prepare you for later life. I would agree with you that high school serves little to no purpose to providing information relevant to day to day life, but if you plan to take on further education in college, high school serves a huge purpose.

You can't cater to everyone's needs, so I think it's important to teach foundation information, which high school seems to do a decent job at.

I think it's mainly to allow us to have a basic understanding of the topic. Like I've never taken a calculus course, so I couldn't tell you what it was. But since I took a chemistry class and I biology class, I have a basic understanding of it, and I can recognize it in out of classroom scenarios.

In the end, I'm glad I took those classes, even if they were useless. Now I have to take useless courses that count towards my major, for some odd reason.

Mew.