In school, students are required to take so many classes and consistently pose questions like “when will I need to understand piece-wise functions outside of school?”; “why do I need to interpret Shakespeare?”; or even “how will knowing Russia’s economic system help me get a job?” It becomes difficult to see what subjects are useful and actually important to take and which are not. It also becomes difficult to know what actually makes a course so important to take.

Classes in school range from basic mathematics to intricate AP art courses, which each apply to a certain subject. In a survey done by the Tom Tom, students and teachers agreed that math, life courses and English are the most important subjects in school, and with good reason. Respondents felt that each of these three subjects are used the most in the daily lives of both students and teachers, whether it be to calculate exactly how much something will cost, what spoon to use during a nice dinner out or knowing exactly what tone to use in a certain situation.