8 of assignment 1

Dozens of schools have recently started to reject gifts of free classic books because they say that todays pupils find them "too dificult" to read. Books from William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, and Charles Dickens have been refused to be stocked because youngsters have admitted that they were boring. Critics said the figures are a damning indictment of the quality of state education in the UK and come at a time when fewer than half of all teenagers are achieving basic standards in GCSE English. I believe that the students do not have a say in what they want to read in school at this early age. Classic novels should definitely be read to highten education of young people.