Curriculum

     Creating a school curriculum is a lot harder than many people think. There is a lot to making classes that kids need to take and want to take at the same time. Now in school you have to take the basic classes like math, history, English, science, and a foreign language which are definitely essential for a good education. Although I do believe that children need to take all of these essential classes, there should also be more courses that are based on the careers that kids want to do in the future. There should be a required one or two years for math, science, and English instead of having to take three or four years of something you do not want to deal with after school. For example, if I am going to become an English teacher there is really no reason for me to take three years of a math or science class. I think that freshman year everyone should take the basics of every subject and then from sophomore to senior year your classes could become more focused on what you want to major in once you get to college. 
     Of course if school curriculums were set up like this that kids only had to take classes that were related to their majors the high schools would have to have many more classes. They would also have to hire more teachers to teach these classes.  It would be difficult and expensive, but I think it would be worth the money, time, and effort.  I think that kids would definitely try harder in classes that they are more interested in and that they understand.  For example, I am not good at history, therefore it was always really hard to do my history homework because I never wanted to take the time to do it.  On the other hand, I have always enjoyed math so when we had math homework it was still not fun to do, but it was easier for me to get through instead of the history.  Kids would not complain as much about their classes if they actually enjoyed them.  I feel that kids only complain about the classes that they really do not care about.  I feel like it makes me a kit more driven to do good in the areas I like more than the areas that I do not like as much. 
     Although I think that the curriculum should be more based on what kids want to major in in college, but they definitely have to take the essential classes first.  Also, I think English should definitely be required for at least three if not four years because no matter what field a child ends up going into they are going to need to know proper grammar and how to write a good essay.  As for homework I think that homework should definitely be part of the curriculum to an extent.  I think that teachers have to teach the lesson before you give the homework because if they give you homework the day before they teach the lesson it just causes extreme frustration to all of the students.  I do think homework is beneficial to reinforce the lesson that was learned in class, but I just do not see the point in having kids trying to teach the lesson to themselves before they do the homework.