[familyop]

"We have all taken at least seven years of secondary English classes prior to coming to Penn State,..."

It's very doubtful that students are going through that many English classes in secondary education. Lack of background in morality is obviously one problem for graduates now.

Another problem is that students are taught very little grammar. What little they see is very rushed and almost devoid of repetitions. But they spend enormous amounts of time on contemporary and recent fiction in order to make classes more enjoyable for teachers.

[Xenalyte]

English classes are mandatory through junior high, and through at least the junior year of high school, in the district in which I grew up (Fort Bend, just outside Houston). Only senior English was elective. So six years of English is the minimum FBISD graduates take.