Imagine if learning english required getting to college before you could even get past spelling. And that your teachers who majored in english, have only constr

Imagine if learning english required getting to college before you could even get past spelling. And that your teachers who majored in english, have only constructed a sentence a few times in a 400 level class and have never read more than a paragraph. How do you even begin to talk about literature? The payoff is so far away and unrelated to the subject taught in school that 99% of the people in charge have no idea what is going on.