Schools Should Offer Elective Classes

When students participate in extracurricular activities they learn lessons and concepts of leadership, teamwork, organization, analytical thinking, problem solving, and time management. In high school if a student wants to do a sport or other activity they will pick the activity that they like and enjoy. This is the kind of decision making skill that could help determine the type of career path for a student. By participating in extracurricular activities youth can find something they enjoy learn to use this in a career. “Participating in certain extracurricular activities having to do with the field that the student is interested in could help them find a job. If someone is looking at a resume for a potential employee, and they see they have experience or interest in what they are looking for, they will be more likely to hire that person” (Massoni). Having been apart of a particular extracurricular activity can be a positive influence in a job resume. This will cause students to find a new ambition in a career. Even on college applications these activities will affect if a student will be accepted, and in some circumstances many activities can earn a student thousands of dollars in scholarships (Massoni). Extracurricular activities can benefit students in teaching them long term commitments. When youth participate in

General Education requirements for students results in a longer time to actually work on minor and major requirements. Allysa Pracz, Oral Communications teacher at Northern Illinois University, holds a just and honest opinion that General Educations classes are useless because they may have nothing to do with one’s major. For instance, a college algebra course would obviously have no effect on a student studying Creative Writing. The only question left to answer would be, why do such requirements exist? It could also be understood that courses required in fact focus on what students should have learned in high school. Pracz recalls her freshman year in college, stating, “I remember as a freshman taking classes such as ENGL 103 or COMS 100. Yes, both classes may be beneficial to some, but they mostly just rehash concepts and skills that the majority of students already possess or will pick up in other courses throughout their academic careers.” College students should be somewhat familiar with the basic concepts of many subjects offered, such as writing papers or algebra. It could also be proven that students are not quite interested in classes that they see as useless. For instance, students who major in Apparel Merchandising would have no interest in taking biology courses. Disinterest could ultimately result in bad grades and a low GPA for students.

Rather than just having basic elective classes expanding their selection gives them the freedom to try new things, and see what they like and dislike. Secondly, similar to the P.E department there is also a lack of equipment in the Fine arts department. An example for this would be drama costumes, there is a lack of funds for the drama department to buy costumes and scripts. Therefore, it becomes quite challenging for the drama teachers and students to pick a production that they can actually produce. Putting in more funds toward Fine arts equipment will allow students to do more activities . Lastly, there should be more field trips for the fine arts department. For example, a field trip for the choir class could be going to an opera, while the drama class could go to a play or musical and the art class could go to a museum. All of these additions in the fine arts department will be money well spent, because it will allow the students of RCA to explore their God given talents, and it will inspire them to be more creative and work harder.

The main courses that we are taught throughout elementary and high school are English, Math, Science, and Social Studies. While those subjects are important, not everyone will use those studies throughout their lifetime, whereas if they taught subjects like balancing a checkbook, how to fill out job applications and write a resume, how to do an interview, first aid, and so many other skills, everyone would carry that with them and find that information useful after they get out of high school.

After someone completes high school, their first step is figuring out what kind of career they want to pursue. Most careers require a college degree just to apply. At this point, they should decide what their major is going to be and see what college is best for them to attend. Every college requires “general education” classes that the students must pass to graduate. Taking these extra mandatory classes is just time lost that college students will never get back.  General ed classes are also a waste of money, as many students acquire major debt from trying to pay for these required classes. If students were able to only take courses that help them in completing their major, more students would actually finish the classes and get their degree instead of dropping out. Universities should not necessitate students to take these general education courses that have nothing to do with the their major.

Elementary, middle and high school all have one thing that never changes between the transitions of children’s lives and that is the arts that are in their electives. States all over have debated whether or not electives should be cut from school curriculum, however despite the disagreements schools are finding ways to make the arts stay. Some schools are troubled with the threats of budget cutting. The result? Instead of cutting the program all together, they are accommodating for that class to be taught by the general teacher. (http://education.seattlepi.com/) Middle schools are adding extra classes to their curriculum such as the elective benefiting from the extra time teachers have to work as a team to help the students understand the curriculum better. (edweek.org) In order to complete high school students are required to have a certain number of elective credits depending on which state they live in. I believe the arts in grade school benefit the children for life after

After all, they say, the purpose of college is to learn a trade, to prepare for a profession. Sticklers for rigorous class schedules claim that students can gain skills and diversify their knowledge in extracurricular activities, and that students shouldn't be coddled with fun, flippant courses. There is one main point that this viewpoint overlooks: college students work hard. Virtually every college student recognizes that they are being granted a valuable (and expensive) educational opportunity. Any student who is taking a full load of major-oriented courses will take those courses seriously, devoting huge amounts of time and effort to each class. These students simply don't have the time or energy to engage in-depth in as many extracurricular activities as would be necessary to equal the benefit of one elective class. Extracurricular activities are not graded and do not help a student pass the GRE, so they often fall by the wayside. In contrast, an elective class must be completed, once started; this allows a student to gain the above benefits and skills without sacrificing career-oriented schoolwork.

The student could then choose to take the general version of that class or an advance version. An option akin to this is already used in high school but this could also be implemented in middle school as well. These classes should form connections to the real world,keep students entertained , as well as get them engaged. Another issue that I identified is that a large part of the standards that students must learn, prepare us to take a final exam and not for the real-world; moreover, the teaching of pupils revolves around pushing from one grade to the next, building upon information that most students will not find useful. In conclusion, it makes more sense for the information that is statistically found in everyday lives the most to be built upon. There are more issues within the school system that I would like to discuss, but I will leave you with this for

We can’t base standards off of students as a whole, but rather, we need to look towards an individualistic way of dealing with the issue. Students should choose their own classes and decide what they want to do with their life. Taking classes the individual chooses that actually means something to them is important because when you love something it is easier to try hard and succeed.

I am a student here at Oxford Middle school and I feel that it is important to inform you that our school should have a wider variety of electives. Oxford Middle school is a perfectly fine school, but many of the students seem to not be able to focus in class. My belief is that kids aren’t doing what they find as fun with the school day they have now. I think that our school should give more elective choices so that kids won't be as board in school.

In today’s society in high school and in college, there are certain classes that everyone has to take. Students have no choice whether they would like to take the basic classes or not. Education has made up the students' choices of classes they may or may not wish to take. Having basic classes isn’t always an awful thing, especially for students who don’t know what occupation they wish to pursue. The only problem with having everyone take the same basic classes would disadvantage the students who do know what they want to be. A person going into the medical field will definitely need to take biology and chemistry, but doesn’t need two art credits. Art has nothing to do with the medical field and that mandatory requirement takes away from the student. If two art credits weren’t irremissible, another science or math class could have been taken to ready for a medical education in

Extra Curricular Activities help our students threw out all the schools by giving thema academical change or just change who they are a person if they have behavior problems they could use those classes could give them that drive to be a nicer person and have that skill of leadership that is needed in young kids like one little girl said in the document “My dream is to

Though it might be beneficial when trying to gain new information for a new subject. For me personally it hinders me from what I need to know. Not only that, but because I must pay out of pocket for tuition, being able to save a few hundred dollars on one class would help my wallet a bit. I find no issue if I voluntarily chose the course I wanted to take because I would enjoy it and retention of the information will remain in my long-term memory. The problematic thing about taking courses “against” my will because of this check list the University needs to fulfill, is like being held at gunpoint. I’m sure that if I wanted to take courses that is far off from my major, I would have gone back to high school because of the unnecessary classes, but now it’s college

Second, choosing their own courses makes it possible for students to learn deeper and become more professional in their field. Now there is a hot word called general

I believe that a student should be able to choose some of the classes that he/she is interested in. This is the basis of the existentialist philosophy that was developed in the nineteenth century. A student should be allowed to choose classes that they are interested in other than the classes that are required by the school curriculum. Even though