tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post8514342756988220230..comments2024-03-28T02:21:17.452-07:00Comments on Seattle Schools Community Forum: Picking a Major...in High School?Melissa Westbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17179994245880629080noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-23834593714849209282007-08-20T14:44:00.000-07:002007-08-20T14:44:00.000-07:00I agree-Educated and middle income families who ar...I agree-<BR/>Educated and middle income families who are expecting their kids to attend college- expect them to take a rigourous "general" course of study in high school- more rigorous than state graduation requirements anyway.<BR/><BR/>4 years of college prep- foreign lang- English-History-Lab Sciences-Mathematics & at least two years Arts classes.<BR/><BR/>Even college level courses are not necessarily very focused. A Chemistry degree instead of a chemical physics degree, or an English degree instead of a degree in Modern American Literature.<BR/><BR/>Affluent families- not only expect their kids to attend college- they expect them to go into professional or graduate school.<BR/><I> That</I> is when you specialize, not in high school.<BR/><BR/>According to friends from the UK, having to test into the 6th form to determine where you would spend your last few years of adolescence, was very class based, with only rare students taking A levels who were lower income.Jet City momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14804841958585043967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-30460037195635362632007-08-20T11:33:00.000-07:002007-08-20T11:33:00.000-07:00I've never met any "affluent families" (I assume t...I've never met any "affluent families" (I assume that means parents angling for Ivy League et al.) that tried to get their kids to do anything close to picking a major. In fact it was more the opposite: they typically told their kids in no uncertain terms that yes, they *did* have to take four years of math, or four years of foreign language, or whatever, because that's what colleges would be looking for, even if the subject wasn't exactly their first love.<BR/><BR/>Helen SchinskeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com