My point is not that it is a good system but it is the one in use now for our schools.Tell me something why is it that our schools as I am told by elders used to teach latin manditory now its not manditory but spanish is pushed hard.If you want to understand law you had better have and understanding,or science,medicine,history and a many of other things.I dont understand the move to spanish but I also dont understand the push for more emphasis on anything but english,science,math and history.Things like computors and buisness can be incorperated into these and tought.There 7 or 8 periods in school but not enough money or time or teachers to teach our kids what they need to survive.While music,gym,study hall,and foreign language might seem important I dont see many of the people who graduate becoming interpreters,paid to play music,atheletes or profesional studiers.My point is that this portion of society is small compared to the jobs that make the gears go round.Managers,laborers,salesman,services,and so on.If you take that money and apply it to teachers salary and more in depth time in the essentials you could get better results.Those other things can be after school things.If you actually go to a gym class youll see what I mean.