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Does such a high bar also have to be present for those students whom are at the top of their grade in a given subject? I have often wondered how different my l
by mjevans 10y ago
Does such a high bar also have to be present for those students whom are at the top of their grade in a given subject?
I have often wondered how different my life would be if public school were more like college. A set of known curriculum which might be consumed in any order in which dependencies were fulfilled.
Yet further, the arbitrary length of a semester should be removed. It should be entirely work unit based.
- stinkytaco 10y agoMy high school was a lot like this, especially closer to the end. You were often required to take certain subjects, but among those subjects, there was a fairly wide array of choices (calculus or advanced geometry, American Lit or British Lit, and so on).
- Pulcinella 10y agoIt's slow, but high schools are generally moving to this model. The school I teach at does this. You are required to have a certain number of and type of credits but you have freedom in how you do this. For example, you are required to take biology, but your other science credits could be forensics, anatomy and physiology, and astronomy. In the past everyone would have to take biology, chemistry, and physics with no options until their senior year. Contact your state legislature.
- germinalphrase 10y agoI've taught in several high schools and they all had this in some fashion. There are some core credits you must take, but then the majority can be selected from a variety of offerings at the school. Expanding these offerings was one of the explicit goals of public schooling in the post-war period (though it has lost priority to accountability since the 1980s).