Schools should give students more classes to pick from.

Firstly I would like to commend you for addressing this topic at your age. It's a difficult topic to address because of the questions it raises: When does someone really know what they want to do for the rest of their life? When does someone know themselves and their selected career choice enough to answer that question? I'll begin with a critique of your statement overall and say that your grammar and spelling are reason number one that no, someone your age isn't capable yet of selecting your primary class load. There is a structure to communicating well that must be taught and must be practiced before you can be considered proficient. To address the idea that people learn better the things they like you are correct. You mentioned that you want to study music but what, specifically, do you want to study within music? Music theory, the application of music knowledge to writing and orchestration, is an entirely different discipline from playing guitar in a punk band or drums in a progressive rock group. Do you want to spend your life mastering the violin in a classical music setting or break trends by assembling a quartet to play heavy metal on cellos like Apocalyptica? Perhaps merge the violin, techno and interpretive dance a la Lindsey Stirling? At your age you do not have the life experience necessary to understand what it truly means to select a career, a professional path that will shape most of your adult life. The next problem is the one of interest. Is mathematics interesting? Absolutely! Physics? Chemistry? Mechanical engineering? You bet! A Rubens' Tube is an expression of all four of those disciplines that illustrates the waveforms of sound and if you put a bunch of them together, musically tuned, you can create a spectacular visual show. I argue that, particularly at primary and secondary school age, you don't have enough experience with what exists in the myriad of disciplines out there to judge whether they are interesting. People change as they get older. You may find yourself more interested in audio engineering as you get older. It's the art of music from a production standpoint and there's a great deal of engineering involved to be certain. But if you don't understand the physics of a ribbon versus a supercardioid microphone, something you're not introduced to as a violinist, you may miss the joy of assembling the sounds from 45 instrument and section mics in to the cohesive piece the composer intended. You may miss the joy of pulling together 4,000 sound samples in to a driving House rhythm that clubgoers everywhere will play for decades if you decide you don't like computers. If you decide that neuroscience and psychology aren't interesting you may miss out on studying the wonder that is synaesthesia. Electives are great but who's going to teach them? Teachers are hard enough to find and it's tough for them to keep a class engaged because people may not be interested in the subject matter. Something school teaches you, with all of its boring classes and homework drudgery, is that it's not enough to be aware of, and interested in, only what is important to you. It's important to take an interest in things that those around you enjoy. We are social creatures and society, as any group of friends, thrives only with variety. Needing to be taught how to use a credit card is one of two things: obscenely simple to the point that a two minute tutorial from a bank teller can explain it or way more in depth than the piece of plastic. If the people who say they don't know how to use a credit card had paid attention to their math teachers they'd realize they understand what an interest rate is and how to apply it to their amortized balance. If the complaint is that they don't understand terms like mortgage and amortized what they need is an economics, business or accounting class but those kinds of classes "aren't interesting" so kids don't take them. The floor is yours. Thank you and I look forward to your respo