I felt English 1 and 2 were a waste of time as well, but the school gets to decide what we waste our time on
i went and talked to a dean or someone and he agreed with me that they were a waste of time and let me take other classes. kstate would be a better university if it didn't have a requirement that students take insultingly remedial classes and also the world would be a better place if stupid training sessions that everyone sleeps through weren't so ubiquitous.
I don't want to get too far off topic, but remedial prerequisites are how universities make money. As tuition continues to rise, I think we're going to see more and more kids attend JuCo for a year to knock out their basic pre-reqs at a much cheaper price (or even better, taking AP classes in high school). Politicians could encourage this, and help burst the tuition bubble, if they would stop expanding/subsidizing student loans. They're just encouraging more student loan debt, which strangles productivity.
Ok, let's get back to talking about universities appeasing these whackjob jackbooted fascists .