Classes that should be taught in high school. Rating Options

[FireButterfly]

Personally, I think CPR should an important subject they should teach in school because you never know when you're going to have to learn how to perform that kind of thing. Like one day your friend could be choking on a hot potatoe and somebody needs to save them before they pass out or worse. Also, you need to learn that if you ever become a lifeguard.

[brooklyneast05]

that should just be taught in health class rather than having a whole class just for that...

[Gigi]

Yeah I was taught that in P.E. and it was mandatory to pass the test.

[*BOSS*]

Art. I refuse to debate this since there is no good argument why you shouldnt

[hypnotique]

I think PE should be required for every one. And a class on how to respect your elders and stop being spoiled brats should be taught to every student also.

lol thats something that cant be taught in class unless the teacher is my puerto rican auntie with her broom stick 1 hour a day with her and you will never ever act bratty again.

[brooklyneast05]

we used marketwatch i think. it was fun.

[heyo-captain-jac...]

I think PE should be required for every one. And a class on how to respect your elders and stop being spoiled brats should be taught to every student also.

No. I would kill anyone if it would keep me from going through P.E. again.

[Joanne]

^ And that's why you are the way you are.

[brooklyneast05]

damn bitches in P.E. were always too good to try and just stood around

[Tsukuyomi-No-Mok...]

o yea girls would never wanna do P.E jus stand off to the side and say
"oh this is bullshit i'm gonna get a doctors note."
note these are the same girls who look at the girls who took P.E in high school and all that and in college they see them again and are wondering
"damn she looks really good how'd she do that??"
then they find out if they had jus gone to the gym and worked out and not made excuses they'd be iight.

[Harp]

[*]Credit
[*]Finance
[*]Environmental
[*]Compositing
[*]Relationships
[*]Parenting
[*]CPR
[*]Meditation
[*]Social class
[*]How to read financial terminology / contracts
[/list]

I have those two classes at my school. And I think you learn CPR in a medicine class my school offers, as well.

Oh, and a full year of PE is required here, AS WELL as one health class.

[*BOSS*]

No. I would kill anyone if it would keep me from going through P.E. again.

fatass

[dosomethin888]

but what if their parents beat them every night and stuff
i always think about that. how much it would suck if someone told you respect your parents and you go home and your parents treat you like shit.

Then they are excused

[*paperplane*]

What? You wouldn't just be able to be "uh, my parents beat me at night. Can I waive this class?". Yeah right. That's not a remotely realistic class to require in high school.

As for PE, where the hell is that not required? I waived a couple of years of it in middle school, but I've never heard of a high school where a semester wasn't a graduation requirement. I still need a PE credit now, ffs. That said, disliking PE doesn't make someone a fatass. f*ck PE. I took it online.

[brooklyneast05]

lol yeah i don't think schools should teach how to respect ur parents because A) you can't force someone to really respect someone and B) lots of people have parents who aren't really that respectable from my experience.

[hi-C]

I don't know if this has been mentioned so far (and I can't be bothered to look it up) public speaking. Ma'f*ckas need to know how to enunciate and use diction and syntax and all that shit.

[*paperplane*]

I really can't think of a way it could be done without more or less brainwashing students to be subservient anyway. You can't force respect, at least not real respect. I was generally a polite and well-behaved kid, but there was this one time in driver's ed where the teacher kept forcing me to call her "ma'am." I was being perfectly respectful towards her, wasn't talking back or anything (my mom's from up north, hates being called ma'am because it makes her feel old, and so I simply wasn't brought up to refer to people that way). But I completely disagreed with the way she was demanding deference, and therefore continually replied "okay" instead of "yes ma'am." Anyway, you can't make kids act in a certain way, if only because teens are generally way too contrary in nature to go along with that shit.

[*BOSS*]

Anyway, you can't make kids act in a certain way, if only because teens are generally way too contrary in nature to go along with that shit.

Yes you can. Kids obviously don't know whats best for them. All the classes you took in high school you knew was bullshit but you learned it for the greater good later on in life.

[sixfive]

Yes you can. Kids obviously don't know whats best for them. All the classes you took in high school you knew was bullshit but you learned it for the greater good later on in life.

It's a good thing I spent three years learning what I could have learned in one semester. Needs more practical classes imo, like accounting/tax. f*cking accounting.

[misoshiru]

Yeah I was taught that in P.E. and it was mandatory to pass the test.

me too.

[*paperplane*]

Yes you can. Kids obviously don't know whats best for them. All the classes you took in high school you knew was bullshit but you learned it for the greater good later on in life.

There's a pretty big difference between learning information and being made to respect people. It's a slippery slope to blind subservience.

[*BOSS*]

There's a pretty big difference between learning information and being made to respect people. It's a slippery slope to blind subservience.

They are the same thing. Learning information is the broadest thing you could've said. Anything is information. The fact that your name is Nicki is one right there.

[turnupthevolume]

Relationships, CPR, and social class are really good ideas, though social class could get a little tricky... People have different views on socializing... Yknow?


I think a dance class would be awesome. I know they have that at most schools, but an actual dance class where they'd teach you dances you actually WANT to learn...

[karmakiller]

Relationships, CPR, and social class are really good ideas, though social class could get a little tricky... People have different views on socializing... Yknow?
I think a dance class would be awesome. I know they have that at most schools, but an actual dance class where they'd teach you dances you actually WANT to learn...

I know it varies depending on where you live and where you go to school, but when I had Health class it was really short. We learned CPR, performed it on a dummy, and that was that. We spent about a week talking about the cardiovascular system, then we discussed drugs. I think overall the health classes that are taught should be better.

[smash]

i second that.