English............History?

Okay, i've been in English classes since i can remember. But, the crap didn't begin until probably my Junior year in highschool, last year. I went into class everyday, thinking that we're going to read poetry, learn about verbs and pronouns, and all this crap. But, it turned out, throughout the semester, that we are occupying our time with History. WHAT THE HELL!? HISTORY? IN ENGLISH!!? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? I mean, HOLY CRAP PEOPLE, this is english, not history. I already have a class where history takes up part of my life, it's government! Mostly like half our semester goes towards learning about english history , our forefathera in the english field. NO! Why the hell do i have to learn about the anglo saxons, and they probably never existed, and i'm never going to need that information again after the class is over! I mean, complete waste of time if you ask me. In my opinion, English is supposed to be geared towards improving you vocabulary, defining terms, learning about the english writing, being able to identify different pinpoints in writing. But, no, standards today set by the government or school districts have geared english classes a lot towards history now'a'days. I simply hate it. I feel sorry for the future generations of kids that have to enter that class, and learn nothing but crap.