DC Board of Education revising high school graduation requirements

[Anonymous]

The first link no longer works and the State Board of Education web site has been scrubbed of any mention of the revised graduation requirements. Does anyone know what happened?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've always wondered why we have history class was so focussed in high school. 4 credits (4 years) of history seems crazy when you could have the students learn useful skills like coding, personal finance, basic business practices, etc...

Why not have something like this:

4 years mandatory math credits
3 years mandatory science (Bio, Chem, Physics)
1 year mandatory History (choose US/World/Civics/Geography)
2 year mandatory Coding/CS credit
1 year mandatory personal finance credit
2 years electives (more history, coding, science, finance, etc)

Total: 13 credits. Once you are done, you are done. If you finish before 4 years are up you can either graduate, or take more electives.

you forgot English
The curriculum does seem history heavy though

I'm the poster you are responding to. English is used in every subject, history (essays), science (lab report), etc. I don't see why high schoolers should have to take English.

[Anonymous]

are you serious? not taking english in high school? what sort of diploma would this be?

[Anonymous]

The kind of diploma that someone who thinks every high school needs to take 2 years of computer science classes ought to have.

Somebody needs to tell the STEM folks that the highest paying jobs go to the people with the strongest writing and analytical skills. In English. Not Cobalt.

[Anonymous]

So is this process over before it started?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There should be no PE requirement in HS,. At the very least if there is such a requirement, then a team sport should count toward the credit. Colleges don't care if you took PE.

+1000!

When I was in High School,l if you played a Varsity Sport you didn't have to take PE.

[Anonymous]

Proposed requirements are here:

http://sboe.dc.gov/page/policy-and-researchinfo-0

Comments due by May 15. This is the end of a multi-year process.

Team sports will be able to count as 0.5 credit (out of 1.5 PE and 1.0 health required under proposed change).