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eluding full-time “band” and “advanced woodworking.”
Perhaps to forestall lawsuits from parents on the ground that their children had been cheated out of the public education to which they were legally entitled (there have already been such suits brought elsewhere). the parents are required to sign a “registration form” listing the dishes from the smorgasbord table chosen by their child under this statement:
“I have reviewed my son's or daughter’s schedule, understand it, and it meets with my approval.”
So much for that!
Those electives which constitute vocational training for “the world of work” should be offered through Piedmont. They have a fine vocational school there, offer better training, and, even were the $80,000 we now pay Piedmont annually to be increased some-what, it would be less expensive for the county, avoiding the duplication taking place now at RCHS.
With vocational training transferred to Piedmont, many of the electives at RCHS are gone. We are left with the rigorous academic subjects now offered as “electives” (English, physics, chemistry, geometry) with precious few of the students seeking a diploma “electing” them and there are cultural courses such as “art” and “chorus.” Considering physics, chemistry, algebra and geometry as “elective” is like Sam Goldwyn saying “Include me out.” Regardless of ultimate personal planning, every student in the high school should be required at least to “touch base” with physics, chemistry, biology, algebra and plane Euclidian geometry. Those who propose to go on to college should be required to touch all three bases in these subjects, along with two years of a foreign language (preferably Spanish here) and i
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