English = writing. History = writing. Art History = writing. Philosophy = writing. Technical Writing = part of the English department.
You aren't going to learn to write in math class or database class or ML class.
What movement is this? And, is this actually a serious movement with any real traction? Or is it merely some reactionary meme?
>”eliminate the English classes while claiming it is because people dont like wokeness.”
If you look at highschool graduation requirements, English requires more credits than any other subject. Often the full 8 semesters / 4 years. Almost all colleges require this as well. I don’t see this going away anytime soon.
As far as the whole “wokeness” angle is concerned, when I was in high school I often felt like English class was more about making sure students learned “the moral of the story” and proving that they did in the format of an essay. I didn’t feel like we spent much time on the grammar and syntax of the English language. I can understand wanting a wider variety of expression at the expense of reading stories and reviewing them. But to some that might sound like being anti-woke, albeit indirectly?