Over 40 years ago, in my high school, we had to take a literature course.
***I took those literature courses. They were useless. Looking back, we scoffed at the Home Economics course. THAT was a course I shoulda taken. Far more useful.
Admittedly, my high school experience was tainted because I went to arguably the worst high school in the nation, even though it was in an upper middle class neighborhood. The high school in town where all the minorities lived was shut down, and the kids were bused to our school. A woman who taught at the school wrote a book about her experience, it became the hit movie “Dangerous Minds” with Michelle Pfeiffer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlmont_High_School#Dangerous_Minds
High school is a waste of time. Kids should just skip it and go straight to community college.