for those that are fans of a mandated course: you need to remember that it has to be easy enough for the lowest student in the school to pass it. It is not college prep. It is not even junior college prep level.
on another favored topic our district requires a "health’ class. After 10 years or so, one of the Board members who was a major proponet of the mandated class, asked in an open board meeting how the course was going. EVERY high school student rep at that official meeting said it was a “joke”. The (clueless) Board was shocked, shocked.