A boy who went to church with me when I was in high school (I was homeschooled) effectively majored in stone masonry — I just graduated from college and look forward to either working for $30k/year or going to grad school, and he was making $50k+/year one year after graduation from high school. Especially when you realize how many non-college-bound kids waste the better part of their senior years on multiple study halls and one state-mandated English test, I’m not sure requiring majors is all that bad. I do think it’s better to require something broad (science vs. marine biology) but a lot of kids need focus. If they’re going to be focused on something small, better for it to be a Classics program at high school than Pokemon or Advanced Dungeons & Dragons or, sigh, MTV.
