In my Sociology class, our final presentation is about creating our ideal dream high school. My group decided to name our school "Shire-Wood Academics Graduatory School." Now the idea of this group presentation is to present the different ways we would include our four core classes (English, Math, Science, and History), electives, and special programs to meet the requirements for the A-G courses to prepare high school students for college and the real world. My group has decided to keep two years of basic and applicable math and science classes and leave the last two years with optional math and science classes.
So this seems to be on my own ideal dream high school courses-track because what if I wanted to be a lawyer? Then I would only have to learn more within the works of litigation, family law, or malpractice, and this would be a job that would require less numbers. In other words, I am not a math person myself, so there is no need to force high levels of math in my brain because they will not stick around in my memory lane too long. We have also decided to keep P.E. and or sports as a four-year A-G course because it is important for students to stay in healthy and active lifestyles. According to my research, I am going to mention that a student's health can easily be at risk due to the many diseases that they can catch like diabetes, chronic heart disease, and hypertension. So therefore it is important for a student to learn more about their health issues and maintain reasonable balances between their academic and non-academic subjects as well. This way, students would be able to maintain longer attention spans during lengthy lectures and less likely to start thinking about eating peanut butter sandwiches for lunch or if reindeers are real.
There is just so much to address, like why it is important to have European History as the basic foundation of a required history class. <-- That is because we all know that in 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue, by crossing the Atlantic and such. But after taking a European History class last year, I learned that this era was quickly displaced by European explorers, merchants, and farmers, and that in order for one to learn about what America is all about, it is important to know what the basic background story of Europe is first. But this doesn't mean that we are going to make students remember excessive facts like where a specific king's family line originally came from or what religion was practiced by which specific nobleman's son's wife's daughter in the earlier days. Let us not be completely absurd and ridiculous.
Also, it is important for us to have a Current Events class because wouldn't it be nice to know that the vitamin pills that you pick up from say, a drugstore aren't exactly the kind of pills that work for everyone? What if researches find out that they can harm you in the way you take them or if they are not the right pills for your body? So what do you do? This is why you need to know what is currently happening in the world to better our current lives and improve on researches and knowledge. While it is important to learn about government and politics itself, we don't need to entirely focus on those topics, because current events should wrap up everything that is happening in the world as of right now anyway. Wouldn't you be interested in knowing more about a serious event that is currently happening in Arizona regarding a law that basically suspects legal immigrants for having illegal citizenship just by the way they look? Well isn't that something. It's discrimination and called unjust racial profiling.
I can go on and on about this all day because I love to analyze things, but I will stop it here, so I can practice for this presentation that I take seriously soon. I refuse to fail my group by providing minute details that could possibly prevent each of us from receiving the full 80 points that we deserve. So an important question that I must address at the end is how all of these classes could reach different intellectuals. Well, different individuals with different intellectuals would have to try and figure out what our school name actually means. If you figured it out already, you would have immediately caught on that our Shire-Wood Academics Graduatory School actually stands for "Swag School" and that graduatory is not a real word in the English dictionary. Well congratulations, you have just been officially accepted to our Swag School. Okay, so I am completely joking if you did not figure it out at your first try, because I myself would have never figured out the secret hidden word in Shire-Wood Academics Graduatory School on my own first try. What I will actually say to address this question is that students at different levels would be able to take classes at their own levels and their own paces to meet the requirements of the A-G courses to prepare for real life experiences and get hands-on experience benefits and lessons if they fail to finish the required courses. Thus this provides them the time to figure out what they want to do and what they can do for the real world. Ta freaking da. I hope that I am ready.
Oh and our mascot is a hobbit.
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