Are you forced to learn all the weapons if you don't to?

I really loved my last school I went to in Florida but had to move. Now I am trying to find a new school I like and it is difficult. I wasnt that interested in traditional MA but Im willing to give it a chance. I found a choy lay fut school here and it seems really good. Their training techniques tend to be very similar to muay thai with a lot of full contact sparring and it looks similar to kickboxing. However there are a lot of weapons in the cirriculum. The staff and the knife I could easily see being applicable to real life so I would train in that. But learning the sai, naginata, etc seems pointless. Is learning the weapons a choice?