High School Education should be simplified and focus on specialization.

1. The current math system does not even do what you are trying to do. In addition, the current math system as well as what you propose is not hands on enough to develop the important skills that you are trying to teach. However, my social studies plan will expand the brain by making think about problems differently, create problem solving skills of which you have already agreed, and educate students on government and politics which is more important than the math that very, very few people would ever use. Anyone who votes can benefit from my social studies plan. Thus, my plan for social studies and math is superior to yours. 2. " most jobs do not require sales or persuasion skills beyond what most people naturally have" Last I checked, the job sector that makes up most of our economy is the tertiary sector. This is made up of service jobs. Service jobs involve communication. Thus, most jobs involve communication(your point is disproven). Furthermore, everyone can read, so why teach classes that involve reading. Reading should be just for entertainment. Most jobs do not require anyone to be able to analyze a piece of fiction. Ways to stimulate your brain, expand vocabulary, and increase creativity is, instead of reading other people's creativity, write essays about real life problems and try to persuade people to agree with you through your writing. Though both plans would increase the basic skills, my plan would be better suited for jobs and real life because people can use writing skills. 3. You continue to say that it is good to know about the world around you. However, you never say why. I have explained my reasoning behind teaching medicine multiple times at this point and you have continued to respond with the same thing. What difference does it make if we know how the world came to be, it is here. Having a basic knowledge of anatomy and medicine is useful for when people get sick. People who want to know how the world came to be can learn if they want to, but few jobs are in the quaternary, research, sector of our economy. 4. Con is failing to bring in everything that I have mentioned. For one, all the classes that I would plan to offer would not be full. You could fill up a marketing class with just one class period. Thus, the marketing teacher can also teach business and accounting. Therefore, the same amount of teachers and class periods would be used. Furthermore, the computer skills that you seem to find important can be put into play because many courses would be taught online using programs such as Aplia or Angel. 5. Actually, your building idea works against you. You want courses to build on each other. You believe that the building of courses would lead to mastery. However, you fail to see that if one small section of a course is not learned, it will mess up the learning of all other parts. This would be like building a pyramid without a strong base. The pyramid would fall eventually. 6. Firstly, why would I, a person who desires a career in politics and business, need architecture. Again, why does a person need to know about the world around them. The ball falls. Who cares that it is gravity. How will knowing that gravity makes the ball fall make any difference? It does not. Therefore, no real life benefit would be acquired by teaching biology or physics to a student who does not want to pursue biology or physics. 7. All jobs in the tertiary sector require some sort of presentation. My English class would build presentation skills which are important. Reading books for pleasure should not be required. However, research is required for life. Say a person wants to learn how to change a tire. Researching things on the internet could tell him or her. The things on the internet are also nonfiction. 8. My math plan reduces the basic skills that a person would know, however it will be made up by my Social Studies plan. My math plan teaches the actual important mathematics skills that would be needed for life and many careers. 9. My social studies plan is based on a more problem solving basis. It will build those skills that math would stop teaching using real world problems. In addition, it forces people to form political opinions before they go out and vote. Doing things like this will make students develop to see politics differently than their parents as well. 10. My science plan will teach things beneficial to health as opposed to the meaningless Why's of life. Everything from nutrition to medicine would be taught by my plan. Anyone who gets sick, sees a doctor, or eats would benefit from my plan. 11. Specialization can easily be taught in online courses. Many teachers could teach multiple subjects. In addition, my plan is not to eliminate going to college. My plan is for students to have course credit before entering a college to make college more manageable. 12. By simplifying core classes, schools open up opportunities to teach what a student wants to learn, additional classes, and they would save resources by not teaching meaningless stuff to students. 13. My plan is divergent, student based education. This type of education builds those skills that you talk about more than the convergent education that our schools teach now. I have met my burden of proof by: Proving the reasoning behind my plan Explaining the problem with the current plan and my opponent's plan Telling the benefits of my plan. To the voters: If you are tired of having students learn meaningless information, want students to learn more common sense information, and want students to earn a way of obtaining college credit, vote for me. If you want schools to waste resources teaching students what they do not want to learn, abandon the opportunities for college credit, or teach students non-useful information that poses little to no real life meaning, vote for my opponent. Thank you all and vote for me for a positive education reformation.