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>One thing that I remember being distinctly different from public education in the US is that the course selection was provided by the school each year and stud
by fatnoah 7y ago
>One thing that I remember being distinctly different from public education in the US is that the course selection was provided by the school each year and students had no say in this process
I grew up in the US and that was my experience as well. There were no "optional" classes until high school, but even then only one or two of my classes were my own choice.
- bluGill 7y agoEven when there were optional courses the school made it clear the only real option was band/choir/french/german/spanish (I think there was home-ec and shop courses available too). There was one hour free that you could pick one of the above, in theory you didn't have to take math and science the last year, but they made it clear that if you had any hope of college you better not skip them. I found out the hard way that band/choir were not really options because my college wouldn't admit me without the foreign language (I had to do catch up classes)