Why do you think that 12 years of english is necisary? Did you really learn anything in 10th,11th or 12th grade you didn't already know in 9th?
At my high school, in 9th, 10th, and 11th grade, we were required to do a research paper (10 to 20 pages) every year in English, and each year we used a different documentation style (footnotes, endnotes, and internal documentation). In 11th grade we could take a standard English course and then in 12th grade we had to take a one-semester English course, or in 11th we could start a two-year English AP or English IB course. During 9 through 12, we covered everything from basic grammer through literary analysis, poetry, creative writing, structural differences between short stories and novels, and general history of different writing styles of the past couple of hundred years, among other things.
Math was set up in a similar way. After taking a year of Algebra in 8th grade and a year of Geometry in 9th, we could either take a year of Intermediate Algebra and then a one-semester course like Statistics, or we could take Advanced Algebra (with the option of going on to Pre-Calc and Trig and eventually Calculus -- I opted out of the year-long senior Calculus class to take the one-semester Statistics instead, which let me take another one-semester class I wanted).
I learned a *lot* in English and Math in 10th through 12th grade that I didn't already know from 9th. I'm sorry to hear that you were not so lucky.
Reggie Bautista
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