That sounds like a terrible school and such a waste.  I had Shakespeare, Dickens, C. Bronte, Kipling, Graham Greene, Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth, all as required reading plus loads of stuff we were encouraged to read plus extra-curricular drama put on for the public such as Pinafore, Pirates of Penzance, Pygmalion.<p>Just in case anyone is still around from those days that was Park Senior High School, Swindon, Wilts, 1970-1974.  The more I hear of other people&#x27;s schooling the more grateful I am for the schools I went to