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Originally Posted by JSWolf
There are many kids that have difficulty reading Early Modern English. Will they every have to read such out of school? No. So why not teach books that they can read? We don't really need Shakespeare.
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There are many students who struggle with math, unless you go into a math related field you really only ever need basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division (and honestly even some of that is questionable as to the need). There are students who struggle with history, recalling dates of events long past will not impact their day to day lives. There are students who struggle with chemistry and physics neither of which are utilized in day to day life.
All the above are taught to make you a more well rounded person including reading classics even if you struggle with them. School isn’t meant to be a cakewalk.