I know at my high school, it wasn't even an option. The "web design" course I took basically was a study hall for me.
I also think this is a symptom of our poor math curriculum. I took every math class available to me and I still didn't touch discrete math or formal logic until college.
The only course my high school offered was "web design" and "programming". Both classes were jokes, the teachers were those who were "familiar" with the subjects, which meant that they may have designed their own myspace page or read a book on visual basic. As the commenter below me said, these classes were nothing more than study halls. In some situations I was so far ahead of the class that I was doing the teaching or expanding on the projects with so many design changes/features that the teacher had to give me an A because they could not understand what I did.
hell, the "web design" course i took in college was a joke! this was late 90's, but still, we used netscape composer for most of the work. i taught myself everything i know about web design/development today, and i've been in the industry since 2000.
I don't understand why they can't just point you at the MIT and Stanford lectures and let you work at your own pace. If you have to have a grade, you could present your work at some regular interval.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 20.5 ms ] threadI also think this is a symptom of our poor math curriculum. I took every math class available to me and I still didn't touch discrete math or formal logic until college.