Were you waiting for some responses until you posted some detail? What I've extrapolated is that you have a problem with the curriculum and you're wanting to make sure you're not making any gaffes. Is that about right?
Ok, here's the situation (since it might help):
As most of you know, I am still in high school but don't actually GO to my high school (I'm enrolled full-time at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities). Now, for the Senior requirement for my high school, British Literature is required. The only British Literature classes offered at the U of M are Junior-in-college level classes, which is completely overkill. I reported the information to my counselor and asked her if I could take Shakespeare, the most notable British writer (arguable), and she said "No" because the curriculum does not support it. I asked the English Dept head, and he said the same thing. Both of them, howeevr, agreed that it was overkill. They suggested I take it at the high school, which is HIGHLY impractical. So, I talked to my principal. My principal asked the grad standards committee and they said no but never really gave a reason. He told me to write up a detailed proposal and he would go talk to the superintendent about it and argue my points with my proposal. My proposal is simply: I should be allowed to take Shakespeare, which is a freshman class at the UofM and thus MUCH closer in difficulty to the AP class offered, while not being the same material in entirity.
Another tidbit is graduation requirements. Because the high school splits up the Freshman Comp requirements in Junior/Senior english classes, that means that I have to take two writing classes (one of them I've already done--a true Freshman Comp class at the U), which is also ridiculous--8 credits at a University level for a .5credit high school (which "translates" to I believe 2 credits at the university) class is also gross overkill, as the freshman comp class is a very detailed course on what actual college writing is like, from my brief experience. So part of my proposal is also that only one writing class be needed, and it be the specific course that I had taken (as even the U of M acknowledges it as a freshman composition course, and I believe it's mandatory).
