Why do high school students need to spend an entire year learning chemistry, another year learning biology, and another year learning physics. It certainly makes sense for students destined for careers requiring knowledge in those fields, but for those who want to pursue careers in art, computers, business, finance, art and design, photography, animation, government, beauty and wellbeing, marketing, advertising, sales, office work, transportation, tourism, security, fashion, computing and technology, construction, entertainment, law, law enforcement, politics, hospitality, catering, accounting, human resources, investment banking, catering, politics, data science, software engineering, cybersecurity, computer programming, and so on, do they really need 3 years of science?
Do plumbers, electricians, carpenters, welders, surveyors, architects, musicians, singers, actors, movie producers, singers, lawyers, paralegals, writers, professional athletes, real estate agents, criminologists, policemen, detectives, uber drivers, flight attendants, travel agents, bakers, chefs, and bartenders really need so much science?
Wouldn’t it be more useful to offer high school students the option to learn bookkeeping, accounting, finance, banking, tax law, how the stock market works, and other subjects they’ll need and actually use?
When you compare how much science is taught between first grade through high school versus how much science is needed and compare that to how many business-related, finance-related, and tax-related subjects are taught versus how many are needed, the scales tip toward changing the emphasis away from science and more toward business, finance, and tax-related subjects.