The required subjects for public schools need to be reworked.

Pro's arguments first and then ill introduce my own1) "1.Many of the subjects that are enforced after middle school are career specific and useless to the majority of people."The four required fields to study all four years are Math (which applies to just about everything) English (which applies to everything), Science (which applies to a lot of things) and then there is History/Geography/Government (which applies to a nice handful of careers)From that point on the electives you take are ones that you can choose and most of them are only required for 1 semester, meaning they are classes that allow you to find out if you have a feel for something and wish to pursue it or if it simply not for you. College is more designed to gear your career choice, high school though is meant to be broad enough to allow people to find something that could be their career choice, and it is very broad and not career specific. "Learning how to use sine, cosine, and tangent and calculate logs aren't really going to help someone who wants to be a banker nor will having to memorize all the equations for all laws of physics and motion help someone who wants to be a doctor or a Pre-K teacher."Yeah but those are both parts of a much larger subject which applies to each of those careers. Bankers still need to learn math and Doctors still need to learn science. Both of these examples only cite very narrow examples of all the different information taught in public high schools which allow people to find their passion. " but maybe only the kids interested in politics should be required to take government."That would require having kids make up their mind about their career at the age of 17 or 18. High school serves to give a broad field of stuff to maybe build a career off of but it also serves to give people basic background knowledge of anything in case they change their career. Lyndon B Johnson was once a Social Studies teacher but he ended up being a politician. There are many other people who changed their career choices and it would be best that we give everyone basic background knowledge for people who end up changing their career choices rather than have everyone at an early age pick a career and then make them stick to it at the risk of having them change their career to something they know nothing about. 2) "Kids are put into the real world not knowing how to do important things."Schools can only teach children so much, parents often teach their kids a fair amount of stuff to and they are always there for when the students have questions. "learning first aid would be more advantageous than taking a health class"Health goes into how everything can affect the body, which muscles are where, and all kinds of stuff whereas first aid is a very narrow subject to study for months and months. 3) "The time spent in school could be greatly reduced if teenagers didn't have such strict graduation credits. You're required to take a fine arts, physical education, and foreign language class in order to graduate"It is required that students take 3 to 4 years of the main subjects (English, Math, Science, History/Politics/Government) everything else meanwhile is made up of many other classes that a student can pick if they find that class more appealing then the others in that category. "but saying that you can't graduate unless you're considered at least moderately fluent in Spanish and can run a mile in less than 8 minutes is unfair"It doesnt have to be spanish though, its any language you are interested in, Spanish is just the primary choice. Meanwhile running a mile a minute is something I dont know is actually required to graduate since you can take PE classes online now...."Just as an example, I've taken 4 years of Spanish and I can hardly hold a conversation"Same here, but I knew enough to pass and I still hold a rough translation of words enough that it could pay off in the future. "Also, some people just aren't musically inclined, and have no real desire to be involved in fine arts. Forcing them to take these classes is detrimental to their success."Fine arts though is one of those things where it can be considered passing just for trying. I bullsh*tted a painting class my senior year and I am not any kind of Vincent Van Gogh... But I tried my best, I did the work, and I passed. Photography, music, painting, designing, etc are all things you need only 1 or 2 years at and then your DONE. Also the first year classes for these things are pretty easy to pass since they utilize only the basics. " this debate is more about whether or not required subjects need to be reworked and why"Pro starts out saying that high school is too career specific then pulls a 180 saying it teaches a lot of useless stuff. But High school is meant to give all students basic knowledge of many things so that if they do have a career change they have something to fall back on because people do change their careers quite a bit and a good number of people change their career choice more than once. After that the Pro says that Kids arent taught some important things, like writing checks and stuff. This is true but parents are there to teach kids such specific things because you cant exactly make a year long course about how to write checks.... Schools give a broad way to teach things, but parents are still there to fill in the holesLastly the Pro says that forcing people to take things they dont like limits them and wastes their time. Of the electives (which is what he is referring to) you are allowed to pick which one interests you out of everything they offer, and even then they only require 1 or 2 years of it and then your done and can move on, and then after that most electives for first and second years are so basic that its easy ti get a hold of to pass. Public schools (in terms of all that is taught) does not need to be re-worked. It is already finely tuned to give people a basic understanding of just about anything important that they can fall back on later in life if they change career choices. However public schools are flexible since students do get to choose electives that interest them in order to study, meaning that even if you are not interested in an elective category, you can still choose a class that best interests you more than the others.