Okay I went to a really great public school, so that's just standard education from my perspective. Everyone took fine arts and music. The classes I listed were

Okay I went to a really great public school, so that's just standard education from my perspective. Everyone took fine arts and music. The classes I listed were the things that only the real enthusiasts trying for Ivy league schools got into. I was aiming for engineering school and kind of a philistine at that age, so I took auto body in my free time. I realize many schools cut the arts classes first and I bemoan that as much as anyone now at my advanced age, but that's a different conversation.