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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stop teaching so many courses. We could consolidate many ap English and history courses to a series of Humanities courses- literally call them Humanities 1, 2, and 3. Make them rigorous general education courses on US and global history, English Literature, and potentially add in some philosophy/sociology in the later coursework. Increase and normalize the “fast track” where Algebra 1 is taken in 8th grade across the country; then, by senior year have students choose between a project-based stats course or calc.

Stop making students take every class under the sun for elite colleges and have them tested across these two courses: Humanities and Math to free up space for whatever electives they want. If you wanna take Humanities, Calc 3, Physics, Bio, and Chem with a language, do it. If you wanna take Humanities, Stats, Latin, Advanced European history, do it. No reason why we have to take so many classes across the spectrum that we don’t care about.[/quote]

If my child doesn’t immediately take to the water in swim lessons, that doesn’t mean learning to swim is a waste of time. Learning how not to drown is an important bar, and it is not the only benefit from the process.

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DP but their solution seems to be decent. The humanities people on here really hate STEM and actively want to reduce the math they learn, so let them continue complaining about pre cal and then they can take a stats class that should be useful[/quote]

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