Being at Coral Reef High School, there were some classes I took that were said to be mandatory in order to graduate. This included the classes I have to take in college makes some classes mandatory. But some of these classes don't even relate to my main interest or career, which is animation. This is probably one of the reasons why students are less engage within their studies. I, along with the majority of other students, would probably find these classes boring if they don't relate to our main interest. Basically, what I’m talking about are the electives. So here's my question: Should high schools have less academic courses and more elective courses? This seems more likely a great approach because we students feel like that the academic courses won’t really be that essential to towards our future. For example, …show more content…
Christenbury and Chavanu argue the inclusion of English elective courses in secondary education curriculum including the value and relevance of electives in teaching Basic English skills. When they included that the English elective course offers students some time to develop an interest in what to do with their careers, it got me thinking: are elective courses more important than the required academic courses such as science and math? Do high schools even need more academic courses since we’ve mostly been taught academics from elementary and middle school? Soon, I began my research for my third source by going to FIU Library again and found this article called "A Untimely Death: An Elegy for the Elective Curriculum" by Leila Christenbury, who was the same writer for “Electives: Once More to the Defense,” and was published by the English Journal on March 22nd, 1994. Christenbury talks about high schools discarding the elective curriculum after the Sputnik-era and provides the struggles of English studies. She states that some high