School English too hard: principal | The Australian

This floored me this morning. I would have hoped that an evangelical grammar school would be one of the last bastions of a classical body-of-canonical-knowledge education. Does this mean that such elite schools in Australia have been totally utilitarianised?

THE head of one of the nation’s elite private schools has questioned whether English should be compulsory for the senior years, saying the courses being taught are beyond the intellectual ability of most students.

School English too hard: principal | The Australian

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