ADAMS TWP — Mars Area students may soon no longer have to take physics courses in order to graduate.

Eliminating the physics graduation requirement was among potential curriculum changes presented by Mars Area High School principal Lindsay Rosswog at the board meeting Tuesday night.

If the package of curriculum changes is approved at the upcoming school board meeting in December, beginning in the 2023-2024 school year, students will be able to choose between physics courses and a handful of new science electives to fill their third required science credit.

“Right now, all students have to take three credits of science. That will stay the same,” Rosswog said. “We just don’t want to dictate that that third credit has to be physics. For some students, it may still choose to be, so we will still leave Conceptual Physics, Regular Physics, AP Physics 1 and 2 as options for our students, but we want to look to add some additional science options for our students.”

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