High schools waste time with foreign language, fine arts and gym requirements.

Thank you for responding and taking this serious. I must note that all of my conclusive evidence is supported through observation and survey. I will begin my rebuttal with your counter points of course. 1. In retort, my opponents' first counter argument is illogical. He only stated "it is not possible to define them as such", which isn't true. In addition, there is no evidence he concluded to debunk my first argument that these classes were financial and time wastes. You can imply momentary value to the appreciation of fine arts. For at the age you are given these requirements, on the most part, appreciation for art and the class is a preset opinion. Furthermore, my opponent's statement about physical education ‘the value of a healthy lifestyle as is taught and promoted in phys ed.', is depended on the premise that all or most high schools have adequate physical education programs and the students are learning (for something to be correctly thought, they must learn), to imply and accept the conclusion that the value of a healthy lifestyle… can hardly be considered a waste. This is a fault in my opponents' argument, for high schools today, contradict healthy lifestyle with the lunch provided. Sure there are the few ‘healthy options', however those options are never good food and are never in enough supply for the entire school. The best option there is the status quo of pizza, nachos, or chicken. And my opponents' argument treats phys Ed as the only opportunity to a healthy lifestyle, if anything a healthy lifestyle should began at home, not in your freshmen year of high school. The classes were classified as waste for the reasoning that most high school students do not want to take these classes. That statement implies that high school students when involved with these unwanted classes will quickly do what they have to do and rush to get a passing grade, which also implies that it is a waste. Also, good education is never equated doing what you have to do and rushing to get a passing grade. And if the purpose of school is good education and little or no good education is received then it's a waste. 2. The point is not irrelevant, obvious less than likely. They are a waste of time to those would wish to focus their educational path on something more interesting in their eyes. 3. The statement is not blatantly false, although my opponents' statistic may or may not be true. There is still the argument that there are many more individuals who do not use the information they leaned in these classes. Learning soccer or perspective drawing has no use if you wish to become a vet. There are many cases where you are forced to take an art class when you would be best prepared with another science or history class. 4. Although most colleges' core curriculum requires you meet a foreign language credit, you do not need a forced preparation for the class in college. If there is a level one class at the college then you should easily be able to take it beginning at that point. There are many students who take a Romance foreign credit only to take up a Slavic foreign language class in college. So again there is no need with your reasoning. 5. I for the most part accept this statement true, but it offers no real logic for it being required, which is the augment. It may help your math skills, but a year of music is not the foundation to being a good mathematician. And beyond that, my opponents' counter argument for this point only addressed music classes. It gave no conclusive evidence to negate requirements of foreign language, fine arts, and gym. My argument is based on speculation, which I've admitted though labeling some evidence as logical observations. But the speculation is valid, for I have witness and been through the following events. I've been given the same results from different races, sexes, ethnics, religions, states and other counties. It is in no way built the well known ‘fact' that most teenagers do not like being told what to do. There is not overwhelming evidence to my opponents' case.