I totally agree with the BS classes statement...  WTF is the point with taking a foreign language have to do with graduating?  Its a requirement now in my old HS that you HAVE to take 2 years of a foreign language to graduate...  In my old town English is the foreign language.... 

We had to take wood working or something of the sort and I think that is a valuable class to put people that have no idea at all into.  It teaches problem solving (as pointed out by blackdiamond) and believing in yourself to be able to do what you don't think you can do.