I ended up getting the highest mark in the class in Grade 12 English up here in Soviet Canuckistan, but I always felt it was a betrayal that left a lot of us without adequate ability to write anything meaningful, and for the most part the books were were supposed to read were read to us in class so as long as you paid minimal attention you could do just fine without doing much reading or writing.
The next class I took was in college, on writing reports and letters, and although I went from getting an A+ to getting a C, the course taught fundamental writing skills such as considering your audience and not yammering on for pages and pages (given my long posts on the fediverse you could say I don't always follow that advice...) -- Despite ostensibly being a class teaching much more basic skills, it provided more important skills I use all the time in life.
In some ways it was like the high school curriculum was trying to get us to do advanced analysis of works when there was a lot of basic stuff they hadn't properly covered yet.
The next class I took was in college, on writing reports and letters, and although I went from getting an A+ to getting a C, the course taught fundamental writing skills such as considering your audience and not yammering on for pages and pages (given my long posts on the fediverse you could say I don't always follow that advice...) -- Despite ostensibly being a class teaching much more basic skills, it provided more important skills I use all the time in life.
In some ways it was like the high school curriculum was trying to get us to do advanced analysis of works when there was a lot of basic stuff they hadn't properly covered yet.
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