Day Forty-two, May Twelfth

The very limited and out of date choices for reading material in high school. The books in the curriculum have not changed for more than fifty years, causing all of them to be no longer relevant. They bore students and make them hate English. Especially Shakespeare. All the others are only one book, and can be dealt with, but having to read shakespeare for four years straight is hell. It makes it easy for students (and teachers) to not read the books because it is so easy to find resources online. If there were no required books, people would actually have to read them and it wouldn't be so boring. No one wants to have to read the same crap as every other student in North America.