Is dropping English in a final term in High school okay?

ColoradoMomof2
Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:26:38 +0000

I’d urge my child (okay, I’d insist) to take the full 4 years of English. It’s required for graduation in Colorado, and all of the schools that my daughter applied to last fall (most of them highly selective) required 4 years of English.

And no matter how “good” or worldly these high school instructors are, as Emeraldkity4 said, the time to “specialize” is in college, not high school. It’s essential that the student have a strong command of English, no matter what the college major.