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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 14 points 6 months ago (44 children)

If we're going to scrap something from high school to add a tax lesson, let's ditch some literature. Over four years my graduating class studied 5 shakespeare plays and a handful of sonnets. Surely we could have cut out Much Ado About Nothing and The Tempest if we still have Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet and Henry V.

[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (28 children)

What exactly would you want to remove, and what would you propose in its stead, and why?

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago (27 children)

Surely we could have cut out Much Ado About Nothing and The Tempest

The only subject that was required for all four years when I was in high school was English, and senior year English was all British literature, so we got Chaucer, Shakespeare, the Bronte's, shit like that.

Honestly I think later high school English classes do more to beat any love of reading teenagers have out of them by force feeding them dire dour old ugly hateful and just plain obsolete shit written by damaged people who lived in a world before the invention of epidemiology so sometimes your neighborhood would die of cholera because someone's pit toilet leaked into the ground water.

Make English 4 if not English 3 electives rather than required. Replace them with a semester of driver's ed, taxes, fire safety, how to safely refrigerate chicken, I can think of a lot of shit that would benefit the world more than having teenagers read a Skakespeare play they don't get aloud.

[–] GiveMemes@jlai.lu 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

When Americans already can't read, you're seriously suggesting doing away with requiring English for all 4 years? I understand wanting to change the material, but that just seems really heavy-handed and counterproductive.

If it's that bad the problem is earlier than 12th grade and needs to be fixed there. I started flight school in 9th grade, I had no problem reading textbooks that said things like "Aerodynamics of maneuvering flight" in them.

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