Here is a good commentary at the Tallahassee Democrat website: Florida Science education takes the wrong track.
All students now would be taking biology, and many would end up taking only biology as a result of large failure rates (anticipated if you examine recent National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and other similar results). What about chemistry? Good news there, but still bad news for physics, which generally requires chemistry as a prerequisite.
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The two sciences that are, arguably, needed most by (at least) graduates who are headed to college are physics and earth sciences. These subjects provide the basics and applications of principles of energy, technology and engineering developments, hazards of weather and climatic change, space-borne applications, utilization and limitations of natural resources, and so many other things that are crucial to the growth of a diversified economy.
