@alexfangtalon So I went to school in a 7 class per day environment in California, with 6 classes being required to take and the 7th class being an optional slot if you're a tryhard like me. A typical freshman class list looked something like this: English, Math, Science, History, and Phys Ed were full year requirements. Most kids had to take a language course, as well, which was another full year, so that left one (or two) slots open in your schedule for any elective you wanted, like cooking, computer science, etc. Essentially, up until your senior year, your classes were largely picked for you, because you had to meet credit requirements on time. My state also basically never does homeroom classes, so that entire concept is completely foreign to me.
It's different throughout the whole country, and the whole system is kinda unnecessarily complex. I have no idea how it works in other countries, though, so I'm also kinda talking out my ass.
@MissCapnCrunch I think the best way to break down class schedules would be to give a baseline for everyone and let everyone pick their character's classes from there. Like, if we're doing an 8 class day, everyone
has to do the following classes their freshman year:
English
Math
Science
Social Science
Phys Ed (or sport, for the athletes)
and then three electives (or two + homeroom, if that's how we're doing that, but again I have no clue wtf homeroom is.)
Then from there, we'd have a list of classes available for each subject (English only really has English 1 available for freshmen, math is open anywhere from Algebra 1 to Calculus, depending on the student, etc etc) that everyone gets to pick from for their characters, and then a list of electives to fill out the schedule.
