Personally, I feel that while courses pertaining to languages teach you much about them. They don't focus on putting them into practice as much as they should. And more classes need the ability to be optional, along with multiple optional classes that need to be added to the syllabus.
While having many options is a good thing, having too many regular current classes become optional could be as much a problem. Has it ever happened to you that you felt a class, subject or lesson seemed so useless at the time, and then years later, you have to put it in practice?
I have a very good personal anecdote about that : while in CEGEP (Quebec's equivalent of the last year of high school and first of university), we had to learn integrals and differentials and so many complained they were useless. barely 2 years later, in computer science class (could have happened in any engineering class actually), we had a very tangible use for it.
It's unfortunate, but I'm not sure young students (nor their parents, sadly) are goof judges of what they will need 10-15 years down the road.
Personally, I feel that while courses pertaining to languages teach you much about them. They don't focus on putting them into practice as much as they should. And more classes need the ability to be optional, along with multiple optional classes that need to be added to the syllabus.
While having many options is a good thing, having too many regular current classes become optional could be as much a problem. Has it ever happened to you that you felt a class, subject or lesson seemed so useless at the time, and then years later, you have to put it in practice?
I have a very good personal anecdote about that : while in CEGEP (Quebec's equivalent of the last year of high school and first of university), we had to learn integrals and differentials and so many complained they were useless. barely 2 years later, in computer science class (could have happened in any engineering class actually), we had a very tangible use for it.
It's unfortunate, but I'm not sure young students (nor their parents, sadly) are goof judges of what they will need 10-15 years down the road.