<p>Now, I was unsure if they meant elective courses that only related to drama/music, or if they meant all, like ones in technology, specific fields of science, etc. I assumed it to be the latter. If it wasn’t, will this hurt me at all?</p>
<p>I thought they were specifcally referring to music, art, and drama. Usually science is considered core not elective.</p>
<p>I think they meant more creativity based things art and music… i really liked this essay prompt, much much easier than the SAT’s, since it was easier to come up with rebuttals and reasons/examples. Now I hope I can get a perfect score on this one, but without the SAT format, i don think perfect scores are in the realm of possibility anymore, even if i was comfortable with the topic</p>
<p>i wrote about how it exapnds students minds, help escape pressures of school and helps create job opp. (i bsed so think my support is weak)</p>
<p>There are elective science courses-</p>
<p>Pathology and Physiology…Environmental Science is at my school…Aquatics…Canine Science…etc. It´s fine.</p>
<p>I used the example they gave about creativity, said that it would make lower standards of education, and take excitement out of school. I think I supported all of them well. I could only think of 2 reasons but I bsed my 3 reason pretty well.</p>
<p>i said it should be cut…hmmm</p>
<p>i talked about how electives promote more “teamwork” which balances the extreme levels of competition that core classes can create in students.</p>
<p>I was unsure of whether they meant elective courses in general or only pertaining to those that they mentioned. Does photography count under their definition?</p>
<p>I know there are science electives but usually science courses, at least one or two, are part of the “core subjects”. </p>
<p>I said they were necessary because they made students more well rounded, kept kids interested in school, and encouraged creative thinking. Basically I had a “What is a brain without a heart” kind of theme.</p>
<p>i put my opposing view as students and school benefit with funding when they score well on standardized test, and that the student benefit when they are taking test like the ACT or SAT that will let them go to more specialized colleges that will let them express their creativity more…
As my 2 examples why they should not limit electives, i put electives allow a student to possibly find a career, or something leading up to a career. And I also put that students recieve a break in mental learning, and if creative learning is not balanced with core subject learning, it could lead to imbalances that make the students more like programmed robots than well rounded students.</p>
<p>I argued for keeping them because they provided and expose students to different possibilites other than the typical English, science, math, history, etc. I talked about how elective courses provide students with the opportunity to find meaning in their life and what they want to do outside of the typical classes (How would you find out that photography is your life’s passion if your school never offered it, so you never event thought abou considering it or anything?). I talked about how there are just as many students that end up pursuing a career in the liberal arts as there are that pursue one on in the non-elective courses, and that these liberal arts students shouldn’t have their futures sacrificied for something relativity insignificant as a budget issue (the school’s money being insignificant compared to the student’s finding the passion of their life).</p>
<p>math+eng = success. whats more important art or math.</p>
<p>emory1r - What’s more important is opening students to many possibilities and helping them find what they were meant to do/what their career should be.</p>
<p>I agree with nickdechile about the science courses. They can be considered either core or elective, so I think you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>I think they were talking about electives in the arts. they specifically mentioned drama, art, and music. and used the word arts a couple times.</p>
<p>I talked about using arts to help with other learning, expand possibilties, and the fact that arts and music aren’t as easy for poorer students to experience outside of school.</p>
<p>How long we’re YALLS essays? (had to use yall…need to get my informalness back)</p>
<p>I think I wrote 3 pages total. My handwriting got progressively worse as the test went on.</p>
<p>I wrote all of the first page and 3/4s of the second page. ~550-600 words.</p>
<p>2.5 pages (10 char)</p>
<p>2.1 (10 char)</p>