Personally, I think that the entire English curriculum should be scrapped and completely reworked, with a base class focusing on grammar, vocabulary, essay structure, speaking and listening and new texts rather that the old prose texts. From there, students should be able to choose if they want to to study older prose and deeper texts, like Romanticism. English shouldn't be the only 2 units that count; I personally find that's absurd and places undue strain on students who don't like/need to be able to analyse texts and write prose extracts. I think that there shouldn't be any subject that is mandatory. The Australian education system places too much effort on theoretic subjects and not enough on the practical, useful subjects. Do you understand where I'm coming from?