Monday, October 19, 2009

Nebraska considering raising graduation requirements

The Nebraska Department of Education is considering increasing their graduation requirements. The new requirements would be- 4 years of English, 3 years of science, 3 years of social studies, and 3 years of math. One year of math must be taken their senior year. It sounds like these requirements will be put in place next year.

Bancroft-Rosalie School currently requires all of these except the requirement that math be taken during the senior year. My initial thought is to require students to take a math class each year they are in high school. It doesn't make sense to skip a year sometime in the sophomore or junior year and then pick it up again. We currently require students to take 4 english, 4 social studies, 3 science and 3 math.