Originally Posted by Psycho Dad

Shakespeare was assigned reading when I was in HS. But the thing that I really enjoyed about it was that my teacher, Ms. Zimmerman didn't just expect us to read it, she read much of it to us in class. She taught us what Shakespeare was trying to relate, she challenged us to explore Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet on our own. Additionally she exposed us to Dickens' Great Expectations and Harper Lee's To Kill a Mokingbird. And trust me, as a freshman in highschool, it took someone who could teach to make me pick up any of those books. And I have copies of all those books on my bookshelf now.

But I have no problem if schools these days want to teach more contemporary works. I only hope that the teachers will want to teach something from it other than a few new vocabulary words.