Physics isn't mandatory in high schools in the US? I could not find much about this so any information is welcome: are there federal laws that set the mandator

Physics isn't mandatory in high schools in the US? I could not find much about this so any information is welcome: are there federal laws that set the mandatory courses in high school or is it state-dependent? where can we find what these courses are? For France, I was able to find the following information: Seconde: http://www.education.gouv.fr/cid52692/les-enseignements-nouvelle-seconde.html http://www.education.gouv.fr/cid52692/les-enseignements-nouv... Première: http://eduscol.education.fr/pid23202-cid46459/programmes-du-cycle-terminal-de-la-voie-technologique.html http://eduscol.education.fr/pid23202-cid46459/programmes-du-... Terminale: http://eduscol.education.fr/pid23202-cid46522/programmes-du-cycle-terminal-de-la-voie-generale.html http://eduscol.education.fr/pid23202-cid46522/programmes-du-... Basically, physics are still a mandatory course in all high school. -- Since I was started with this, I wrote a short explanation on student years before graduation in France: In France, we count student years away from graduation: Sixième ("Sixth", 6th), Cinquième ("Fifth", 7th), Quatrième ("Fourth", 8th), Troisième ("Third", 9th) are medium high ("collège") while Seconde ("Second", 10th), Première ("First", 11th) and Terminale ("Final", 12th) are high-school. And we have specific names for our five-year elementary school ("École primaire"): Cours Préparatoire ("Preparatory course/class", 1st), Cours Élémentaire 1 ("Elementary class 1", 2nd) and 2 (3rd), Cours Moyen 1 ("Average class 1", 4th) and 2 (5th). And before that is non-mandatory kindergarten ("École maternelle"): "Petite section [de maternelle]", "Moyenne section" and "Grande section". All of this is summed up here: http://www.frenchentree.com/living-in-france/education/french-school-grade-equivalents/ http://www.frenchentree.com/living-in-france/education/frenc... .