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Originally Posted by meeera
Happily, many schools (around here; YMMV) are no longer requiring that books be old and "classics" for them to be worthwhile, interesting, analyse-able reads for school age students. What the "Classics Only!" system led to was generations of children who were mostly turned off reading classics (and often turned off reading altogether), with only a very few enjoying them and going on to read more.
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To Kill a Mockingbird was only a few years old when it was assigned reading in high school. Since it's set at an earlier time, it never penetrated my consciousness just how "new" it really was.