It was not my intention to imply that language arts do not require acceleration ever. Clearly, your DD really wanted it and should have had it. My point was that for DS, he did so much reading (up to adult level) outside of the two-hour reading/language arts block (and actually also during his free-time within the two-hour reading/language arts block), that it really wasn't a great hardship to read only slightly accelerated but interest-level appropriate literature during that time slot. There is a huge emphasis on literary analysis and have been since first grade. The writing was open-ended enough for him because even though he writes well, he is not PG-level writing-wise. Part of it is personality and perhaps maturity as well. Even my DD, who is a prolific writer and artist, doesn't want formal instructions in those domains.