Jan-20-2012, 09:22 PM (UTC)
It's no better here in England regarding curriculum reading material. In fact, things haven't altered very much at all since I was at school. I wasn't remotely interested in the books I had to read at school. They were that good, I can't even remember what they were called! Truly, they need to 'get with the programme' as my kids would say and move with the times. Time enough for the classics later on in life.