What confuses me is this: when I went to high school, I took the required classes they told me to, plus a bare handful of others that I had time for. None of these included history of lit, study of lit, western lit, nonwestern lit, or anything remotely like that. We got our fill of books in "English" class, whatever the hell that means. If you remove the fiction books from "English" class, you are completely removing one of the pivotal parts of our culture from our entire schooling experience. We won't learn them before high school, and unless we choose certain areas of study we won't learn them after either. And the main way to choose your area of study is by doing a bit of everything in high school. I believe the article said 2014 -- I hope someone fights this and beats it by then.