AHS should be offering a wider variety of classes

Aurora High School offers a wide variety of electives and classes to their students. But the classes that are offered to students are often not what they are looking for or even want to take. There are the basics like Math, English, and Science that are mandatory to take and then there are electives such as Team Sports or Creative writing. Although these classes are enjoyable, other classes could be more desirable for students; family and consumer science, engineering, a class in law, or even a movie dissection class.

“Yeah I think the school should offer more classes for the student, especially ones they want”, said English teacher Greg Pinzone.

Senior Faith Bromfield expressed interest in a family and consumer science class, stating, “After listening to a presentation about the class I think it’d be an awesome class to take and teach a lot.”

The class deals with major societal issues such as work-and-family, health care, child and elder care, family and so much more. It lays the groundwork for being a member of society and is so important that it is at least available for students to be able to take.

Another great class that should be offered but is not is sports history. It would be a class that teaches students about the major events in sports throughout history. Sophomore Evan McVay said, “I think it would be a really cool class and that the school should offer it because many teens are interested in learning about the history of sports and learning what led to how sports are played now.”

One more class that the school does not offer is a sign language class, it would technically add another foreign language class to the list, Junior Makayla Teichow stated that, “Having a sign language class would be unique and help us understand people that we couldn’t before.”

The multitude of classes that Aurora High School could be offering and that students want to take are enough that the school needs to listen to its students and start implementing some of these newer classes into the curriculum.