High School Education should be simplified and focus on specialization.

Defense of my plan: 1. Of course math is important in society. People need to learn the basic functions, algebre, and some geometry. All of this can be taught in one year as opposed to dragging it out into extremely detailed classes. In addition, these things are used in many jobs, as you have previously stated, but matrices, conics, and trigonometry is not. Furthermore, my social studies plan would open the left side of the brain as opposed to math so this point 2. Public speech in the typical sense is may not be very useful. However, simply being able to present an idea to two or three people is required for most jobs. Teaching this class would teach people how to speak correctly and builds verbal presentation skills. These skills are basically nonexistent in many students today. 3. How does knowing how the world around them works beneficial to an accountant. Knowing how the world around them works is beneficial to scientists. However, knowing how the body works is useful for anyone who goes to a doctor or gets sick. Everyone. 4. It is reasonable if the core classes are cut. In addition, teachers can teach different subjects in the same classroom. For example, the business essentials teacher can also teach the legal environment of business, in the same classroom. No additional staff or room is needed for this. 5. Students pay tuition fees at colleges, not government schools. Schools already offer classes like architecture, I am simply advocating going in depth in programs like architecture and offering opportunities for college credit. Then, you do not have to take it at college. Then you do not have to pay for it. 6. They may forget some things, but when something is hammered into you like writing, you will remember the important things. For example, if, for English, a school offers Persuasive comp., Expository Comp., and Public Speech, the student could take all three at the same time if they wanted to. These classes would not build on each other so they could be taken at the same time or in any order. If the students took the classes one per year in the order mentioned above, they would still possibly forget persuasive anyway, just like students forget how to write the paragraph styles taught just in ninth grade. 7. You run off of the assumption that students hate school and will always take the easy way out. You also claim that students are clueless about their future. Yes, many students do hate school but they will still stick with their favorite classes. If a student loves architecture, they will take it over accounting(which for the purpose of this explanation is the easiest class), which is completely opposite of their love and can be boring. 8. Yes, social studies will develop the skills that you claim would be lost by cutting math to one or two years. 9. No disagreement 10. Both plans push for students to form political oppinions Now to criticize your plan. 1. That is what math is about now, and this is taught by graphing specific functions most often. My plan would help teach organization, problem solving, reasoning, thinking with numbers, and crititical thinking in a much shorter amount of time with real life problems. 2. People should read more. But, reading should be more research oriented. Reading encyclopedias and non fiction books will teach people how to research and builds critical reading skills. Research can be used in all jobs and in real life. If people want to read fiction, they can do so. But it will not be emphasized in school. 3. It is not as important as medicine and anatomy actually. People will always get sick and go to doctors. These classes, or class if they are combined, can be used much more then knowing about single and double replacement chemical reactions. People get sick everyday, but people rarely ever mix random chemical to find a precipitate. 4. I have already disproven this fact. 5. Computer classes will always be or will become increasingly detailed and thus, useless. I emphasize using computers in all the other classes without offering general computer classes. I would still offer web design and programming classes for those who want to pursue computer programming careers. 6.As I stated before, people already know what they are interested in, they will pursue this and the rest of the classes would be about preparing them for basic life. In all reality, my plan emphasizes subjects most applicable in the modern world. My plan teaches life skills and general knowledge you need to know to get through life. I do not care about making people more intelligent, intelligence means nothing if it is not used. My plan emphasizes using a person's intelligence. My plan involves developing knowledge in what a student finds interesting. In all reality, I find that today's high schools force students to make career decisions today, and I believe my plan will actually take the pressure to know exactly what they want to do off of the student. In addition, students will also be exposed to different things when the useless core classes are cut down. The students have more class openings for them to fill with things that they find interesting. To sum my plan up: My plan is about developing a students interest, encouraging problem solving and the formation of opinions, and cutting classes that teach information average people do not use on a daily basis.