science shud be optional for students Options

[angel-roh]

i get so stressed with all these stuff..y cant we have an optional rather or not we wana do it... i knoe it's important for everyone to know...but still... they can figure it from the news... i dont know...but i kinda like science, but the thing is that y shud take science? dont u guys got an arguments? shud science be optional at the year of 2010? or shud science shud be taken by every students in skool at the year of 2010? mostly 30 to 40 of my friends are talking about it too... and thot this was a good argument heh cus my friends and i are doing an argument about science^^

[WildGriffin]

The foundations of any study is vastly important to education, especially math and science. If students were to go to college, clueless of atoms, the periodic table or lacking the knowledge of their own anatomy, America's education system would plummet as we know it. Our children will become... brainless to a certain extent.

Oh, I dunno if it would be that drastic. Considering it already is like that. Alot of science is like a foriegn language, it gets forgotten over time; due to it's massive amount of disuse by joe schmo.

I mean, if I remember any physics equation or laws when I hit 40, it'll only be because i'm working with it at the time. But things like earth science and biology are essential.

If any subject needs to be beefed up, it's english. People need to learn how to express their feelings/thoughts both in writing and speech, and communicate on a higher level.