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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Accelerate English to what/where exactly?  At a certain point it's not about acceleration of English but choosing a focus or topic of study.  That's why there are so many English electives.

The problem is not accelerating English further, its creating full year/semester electives that go towards graduation requirement.[/quote]

I'd say 'accelerate' English to the point of requiring actual research (with proper method, documentation, and citation), academic writing, multidraft editing, and formal presentation skills (not just reading disconnected commentary from the notes fields in Google Slides).  Kids who find it comparatively easy to read a novel and dash off a character study or a comparison/contrast paper should be introduced to higher-level academic discourse sooner.  Even AP doesn't do this.[/quote]

They may not get this from a high school English class. I got more of that kind of writing practice in history class than in English, which focused on novels, plays and poetry.

High school English classes are not courses in technical or academic writing.  Going in the school science fair would provide more opportunities for academic writing than English class.

If you are the OP, did you grow up outside the US? Do you work in a science field?[/quote]

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