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But my experience has been that many modern novels are just too soft for the classroom (the kind that come a dime a dozen, especially the ones students want to read for their "independent reading" work).
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I'm arguing that there is a vast number of contemporary works that would be appropriate in high school, and that I have experienced first hand. I also think that the students aren't being lazy in their whines; they're expressing, however ineloquently, the distance from which they are from classic texts. That distance creates new challenges that aren't necessarily appropriate given what the students ought to be learning. That isn't to say that Shakespeare should be cut out completely, but that traditional curriculums ought to evolve along with the students (and by evolve, I don't mean backwards).
You'll note that the line you quoted is from a different paragraph than the one in which I respond to you saying that I disagree.
But I do think that we have very similar opinions in this.