All schools are given a certain curricular they have to follow, the students are to take those classes as part of the curricular in order to graduate. The real question is, are all the classes students take really necessary later in life? High schools need more of a variety of classes especially for seniors. They have eight months of school, although that sounds like plenty of time to get things figured out, it is not. With extracurricular activities, homework, and trying to have a social life, time goes by so fast. When a senior graduates high school, they should be able to leave with the comfort of knowing what to expect when they are in college. Not just school type stuff, but the social aspect of college, leaving home and not knowing fully of the dangers.
Health class provides good teaching aspects of what drugs can do to the body, how washing your hands can prevent from spreading germs. In all reality, these are not the things that students are going to remember when they leave from home to college. A class that all seniors should be given the opportunity to take is a Sex ED class. Given if you are going to a Catholic high school, this may be seen as a bit of a problem. Having a Sex ED class does not promote students to have sex, by having this class you can inform students of the dangers of having sex, and how much a person can benefit by waiting.
“In 2010, 46% of all pregnancies (31,000) in Oregon were unintended.” (State Facts). “The teen pregnancy rate in Oregon was 47 per 1,000 women aged 15–19 in 2010. The national teen pregnancy rate was 57 per 1,000, ranging from 28 per 1,000 in New Hampshire to 80 per 1,000 in New Mexico.” (State Facts). Pregnancy is enough to keep high schoolers from having sex, but many think