In other elementary and scondary North American schools, the parents want the traditional curroculum: they want thir children to study each skill srperrately, the eay they themselves did in school. So the students have sepatate claddes in mathematics, history, science, English, and maybe another language, Music, physical education, and art are part of the curriculum, but they are in separate classes. In all of the classes the children read and write. This is the back-to-basics curriculum. Someparents like this kind of school. They say that back-to basics helps students prepare for univerdity work.