The Redundancy of English Class
The Redundancy of English ClassIn high school how many times did you have to write an English essay or some other assignment and ponder its meaning? How many times have you asked yourself, “What good is this essay going to do me later?”, or if you thought, “Boy, I am sure glad I wrote that essay on peanuts.”.
If you were a normal student you would question the relevancy and importance of every painstaking assignment, and most of the time grudgingly do it anyway grinding your teeth the whole time,except if you were one of the mythical students who enjoyed the chance to express them self, or strengthen their hand muscles.
The solution to this dilemma is easy, limit the number of years you have to take English say to 2, like what they do with math and science, and for the few who enjoy or are interested in it can take more of it, and get more out of it because the students who do not want to be there and most often slow the class down probably would not be there. My reasoning of this conclusion comes from my peers, experience, pure logic, and the opinions of most of the adults that I asked.
For in the first 2 years of English (freshman and sophomore) you learn all about prefixes, suffixes, roots, giving speeches, the structure and how to of writing essays and the like, as well as vocabulary. All of these things are important and very necessary to be successful, that is not in dispute however.
What is in dispute is the 3 and 4 years (junior and senior) and the idiotic redundancy of them, you can say that you are honing your writing skills, but after the previous 2 years of these you have become fairly proficient and do not need more practice, unless you plan to study a subject that involves it.
You might very well say, “What about all of the literature classics?”, and my reply to them would be, “What about them?” I have read the assigned books, most of them anyway, and though I realize the importance of them in the literature world, but not out of the literature world....
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