Health & Fitness
Opinion: Students or Robots? The Lack of Choice at BHS
By Jiaying Su
BHS News
Has BHS terminated electives and passion?
It’s that time of the year again: student programming!Filing into the auditorium with yet another copy of the blue-and-white student programming handbook, most of these incoming students are already keenly aware of their academic fates for the rest of their high school careers.
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Algebra 2 or Pre-Calculus, Chemistry or Physics, U.S. History or English 10A – these requirements ingrain themselves into the minds of these students. They know of their limited choices, politely and blankly staring at the plethora of charts and “options” that unfold before them in the form of lectures and PowerPoints. Eyeing the almighty 8.5×11 scheduling sheet between the folds of their handbook, they are played by this system.
Although a certain degree of order is necessary in upholding Braintree High School’s academic standards on a community, state, and national level, the guidance department should award more liberties in the academic decisions of their students, lessening the stifling restrictions, and allowing students to discover and pursue their own passions.
