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By the way, just to be clear, I'm not saying that high school kids shouldn't read Shakespeare or other difficult works or books that don't speak to them in a modern voice; I think reading those sorts of books are important. I'm just saying that I think most high school kids will get far more out of the experience of reading and learn to enjoy reading more if the books that they are taught engage them in a way that Shakespeare probably doesn't.
Oh, and this is coming from the husband of a woman who was working on her Ph.D. in English Renaissance Literature (before she had to suspend her studies due to illness). And she agrees with me (well, at least on this subject...; on other things in life, not so much).
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