The problem with American high schools is there isn't any specific purpose in any of it. Any argument for why a high school student is required to take a specific class is easily and effortlessly countered by an example of someone who doesn't need the class at all. This isn't just the writing of some kid who hates their English class, this is just a fact: An overwhelming majority of people who are required to take geometry won't remember or need to remember it at any point in their life. Most people who spend a month analyzing Hamlet in their tenth grade English class won't remember anything at all about it by the time they are in eleventh grade English. Some people say that the purpose in taking geometry isn't to know how to find the area of a sphere, but rather, it teaches skills such as analytical reasoning, but by the time most students graduate high school, they wouldn't be capable of proving a mathematical concept to save their life. And perhaps the reason tenth grade English students read Hamlet is to improve there vocabulary, grammar, and competence with the English language? Well, most high school seniors wouldn't even realize that "there" is incorrect in the previous sentence.