Schools should give students more classes to pick from.

I am a middle school student. I have worried a about my elective class that I can pick from. This has worried me because I want to go to collage for music, and there aren't that many music classes to pick from. So, imagine you are going to get your school schedule at your school open house. When you look at your schedule you see that you have a class that won't get you into the job you want or it is just a uninteresting class. Would you really want a class you will never like? Students should have more classes/electives in school. Students should have more classes to pick from because there are no classes that students like, students would like to learn stuff that will help them in their everyday live. There are many classes to pick from, but many kids don’t like the classes they are given. Christine Sarikas from Prepscholar said in her article The Complete List of High School Classes “1. Accounting 2. business law 3. business management 4. consumer education 5. entrepreneurial skills 6. introduction to business...” This is important because if kids don’t like the class they are in they will probably not try as hard. Also if they are trying to go do a certain job, they are going to what to has better classes for what their future job will be. Also Christine Sarikas article was just a list of classes. This is not all of them, but all of those classes sound boring. Who would want to sit through a boring class. When I was looking at some sources, I found an article called 12 Important Life Skills I Wish I’d Learned in School. In Geoff Pilkingtons article it says that he wished that he learned how to use stuff like credit cards. Credit cards are important for normal life. People saying they wish that they learned how to use credit cards in school is no good. Credit cards are how we buy things. So, Geoff Pilkington is saying that schools should teach more things for people to have in their normal life. In my life, when I am picking my elective classes, I never know what to pick. There are hardly any classes that I would enjoy. Business? Computers? An extra science class? I would hate all of them! This proves that us students only pick classes that we like. No student wants to sit through a class that they don’t like. We also only pick classes we may like because we would like to go to college for something. How are we going to go to college for that one thing when there is almost nothing for us to pick so we can get in to that college? In an article called Miami Herald: Beyond the Classroom: Electives in school - essential or entertaining by Laurie Futterman said “Electives are thought to be interesting and don’t require a lot of homework. But in reality, elective courses are much more than fun-filled schedule stuffers. If offered correctly, elective classes can be game changers for many kids. Reading, math and science aren’t for everyone — and we need to realize that.” This is saying that some classes are not for everyone and that elective classes can be fun, unless you don’t like the class. On the other hand, there are many people that think that there are way too many electives to pick from and to many things to pick can irritate a student. They also say that the topics that are already there will help the students in college. However, students need more classes, because many students don’t like the classes given so they can have the job they want, they would like to have more classes that would help them in everyday life, and students would never want to sit through a class that they don’t like. Would you like to sit through a class that you don’t like? What jobs do you not need to go to college for? Did you have this problem?