High School Education should be simplified and focus on specialization.

I will start by offering criticisms for your plan. 1. Math teaches many important skills, but why would any normal person need to learn trigonometry, parabolas, hyperbolas, or virtually anything people learn today. People should learn things like math of finance and basic graphing and limit it to that. People who want to pursue a career in which they would use the more specific information can take a class on it. 2.I completely agree with teaching expository and persuasive writing, but I believe people should learn to read these types of writing as well as things like business letters and informational things like encyclopedias. People should focus on reading for information for things like research papers. Literature is good for people who find it interesting and should, again, be optional. Why does an accountant need to read Shakespeare while they could be reading something that will build their research skills. 3.Yes, science and math is important for the technological development of society. However, how is teaching people what is inside of the mitochondria of the cell. How is being able to diagram electrons important for most people. These skills are important for people who find it interesting and want to pursue it as a career. Again, I say make them optional. These things would be useful to people who are in chemistry and mathematics careers but not anyone else. I will end this point with what is the last time you have used hyperbolas or electron configurations. 4. I agree completely with what you say for social studies. I disagree with your idea of having classes build on each other. I would like it if students could take three different English courses in one school year and be done with English for all of high school. You claimed that third graders cannot learn physics. Of course not. Elementary and middle school education has to build on itself. However, high school should teach a variety of useful information and set people up for careers and life. 5. I have taken a computing in the modern world course where I learned programming, web design, animation, and computer history. Most of this will not be used in many jobs, but will be used for computer programmers. This computer course that you would require did not once teach research and typing. It did not teach internet use. It taught nothing that would be used in most jobs. I would not require a computer class but would emphasize using computers for typing papers and research. 6.You are right, I would say 1 in 2 high school students do not know what they want to do when they grow up. However, many have an idea of what field they desire and even those who do not know what interests them and they will study it. Even if, big if, they do not know this, they can try a variety of classes to see which they like best. Why my idea should be supported. 1. Fewer resources would be wasted teaching students what they do not want to learn. 2. College would not be such a huge expense because students would be in it less time. 3. Problem solving skills developed by my social studies program would improve in students. 4. People would learn to write with courses developed specifically for writing. I have found writing to be a skill getting increasing weaker. 5. Since illness and going to doctors are parts of life, teaching people medicine and anatomy as stated in my plan for science would set people up for this unlike the current plan. 6. I have found that many high school students do not have opinions on politics which is not acceptable for people who would be voting in just one to four years. My social studies plan would develop opinions in students without forcing opinions onto students. This is because my plan involves solving problems and in order to solve problems, one has to form an opinion on how to solve these problems. This plan would reduce the problem of ignorant voters. This plan saves resources, increases the quality of student life, encourages college education, and prepares students for life. There is no reason, after this debate, this plan should not be taken seriously and adopted.