English is important for many reasons. For one, you can't get a great job if you can't speak it well, or write it. It teaches you great things even about history (poets, etc.). There are definately a lot of reasons why it is so important, English has been for hundreds of years and will always be around. You use English in everything that you do eacha dn every day would be your number one. Think to yourself...why would a school pick that subject? Go through all of the positives of it, we can't tell you much because it would give it away and we just did your paper for you.