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Originally Posted by HarryT
The "good reason" is that it's the language that the man who is widely considered to be the greatest ever writer who's ever used the English language wrote in. You want to deprive young people of their cultural heritage merely because it's "difficult"?
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Shakespeare is not part of my cultural heritage as far as I know.
I would stop the teaching od Shakespeare because it does have an adverse effect on a lot of kids and they don't read for pleasure because it's such a struggle and a turn off. It's not modern enough. Kids these days should be reading more modern books that are more relevant to their live's as they are or as they might be. Shakespeare (as written) is not it.
Personally, I thought most of the books read for English class were a waste of time and I still think that as hardly any of the books read have any meaning to my life.