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[quote=Anonymous]At the parent night in MS, it was stressed to let the kids pick the electives on their own. The teachers and admins all agreed that it's better for them to make a wrong choice and learn from it than to force them into a class they don't want to be in and fight with them all year. I thought that was excellent advice. Plus, my daughter's MS schedule was already so full of advanced academic classes that were required that allowing her to pick two fun electives allowed her to feel like she had some control. Our MS made each kid pick one language elective, one music elective (band, guitar, chorus), and two other electives that were each half year courses (general art, pottery, drama, cooking, tech class, woodworking). Fact is, the third category are all "fun" classes, really. Yes, they'll learn skills in them all, but I don't see the academic merit in one over the other. [/quote]
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