[scitch]

"There's no reason not to have two physics courses in high school."
Are you serious? How about the fact that students have to cover Biology, chemistry, physics, and earth science in four years? Where are they going to fit that fifth science class? Why not do it right the first time when they have the tools necessary to do it. Which of those subjects would you like students to give up so that they could take the history of physics? I don't know of any middle school students who take trigonometry, not even basic trig. If you think that special relativity doesn't require advanced math, then you have no idea what special relativity is. And the logic behind it is beyond most human beings, not just 9th graders. I include myself in that group of human beings who don't have a complete understanding of special relativity.

[edwin hubble]

"There's no reason not to have two physics courses in high school."

Physical Science is usually taught in 8th grade (physics without the math) and then Physics in 11th or 12th.