Only 25 percent of American high school students, he added, ever take physics.
It takes math and physics to keep these jugglers up.
The first year he took nuclear physics, but then switched over to political economics.
The students who take physics are the smartest in the state.
"It's not like you have to go back to school and take nuclear physics."
After 20 minutes of his lip-read questions - "Who is taking physics?"
Nationally, about 20 percent of high school students normally take physics.
We're asking a kid who doesn't need it to take physics.
Many students take biology, chemistry, and physics to meet this requirement.
At that point, in 1989, only 10 girls in the entire school took physics.