I don’t really think that the “limited space” argument vis-a-vis honors classes should be accepted without question. IMHO this is an example of manufactured scarcity. If more students want to take on the workload and expectations associated with an honors class, then more of the sections should be honors sections. Why not? There is nothing about honors-level classes that causes their value to be degraded by wider participation, so long as the same standard is maintained. The whole “there isn’t room” premise is nonsense. Everybody needs an English class, and the staffing levels needed are the same regardless of the relative enrollment in honors vs. non-honors. This is just bureaucratic laziness that deserves to be challenged. Every high school waxes poetic about how they urge their students to strive for excellence; turning away students who seek to do just that is foolish and hypocritical.