Inside the new English course that's ditching Shakespeare for Indigenous authors and will soon be mandatory across the Toronto District School Board : canada

Having gone to high school in Toronto a bit over 20 years ago, I did find the Shakespeare portions of English classes (grades 10 through OAC) to be the most useless things in high school education. I wish they would have taught grammar, punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, business writing, and essay writing instead of Shakespearean literature, Michael Ondaatje, and Charles Peepeeens.

This isn't the only commenter whining about not having grammar lessons. What do leaves do for their first 9 years of English class and then the rest? We were reviewing grammar through the very end of school.

What's the problem with this?

At least this is exposing students to content that is almost certainly going to be more relevant to Canada's actual local history, culture, and society.

There isn't a problem. Half these people probably never read macbeth or any of Shakespeare's other works. It's just rage bait for the people on reddit who hate natives lol

The only people braindead enough to not have read anything from Shakespeare are the ones in the r-slur classes

Funny how much Canadians hate all of this stuff now.

It's incredibly counterproductive to read only contemporary prose. Yeah, I hated Shakespeare and the Romantic poets in high school but it's important to see how language changes

also it's important culturally to have a shared set of stories, and these native written ones are usually boring

Good.

How are you gonna study it? Can anybody actually read this gobbledeegook?

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