As most know, students are being required to do more and more at an earlier age and grade level. Higher standards and skills are being required of students at earlier ages than ever before.
Students are being asked to identify what they want from their future at an age as early as seventh grade. In many cases, students are asked to determine whether or not they will attend college. Students who attend college are required to take more and different high school courses than students who are not planning to attend college.
However this may change for some students. It seems now that many departments of education who once thought that high school students should be given two options of study (university path or technical path) are now seeing that only one path of course is needed.
In many cases, students who followed a college path took part in harder and more rigorous courses. High school students on a technical path had an easier course load.
Many business men and women who are responsible for hiring these students out of technical paths are seeing that perhaps the rigorous coursework and tougher path would also benefit them. Our society is much more demanding of all of its citizens not just the professionals.
To function in our workplaces, students need higher levels of courses. Factory work and other jobs that once were thought to need little or no educational background is now seeing that more education from its employees is needed.
All students need to be able to reason, problem solve, and function at a higher level of thinking.
With this in mind, all students are being required to take college bound courses and complete the same coursework no matter what they have in mind for their future.