Sounds like USSR's education system. A high school would require 8-9 classes every semester, and you don't really have a choice about which classes to take. You

Sounds like USSR's education system. A high school would require 8-9 classes every semester, and you don't really have a choice about which classes to take. You have to take physics, literature (world and local), chemistry, "russian" (similar to composition/creative writings in US schools), math, art, and so on. There was a lot of complaining about the classes -- most people don't enjoy knowing both properties of organic acids and major themes in Fet's poems at the same time. And many people would feel some classes are mostly a waste of time. Still, it did allow one to discover what they want.