20 Classroom Classics That Shouldn’t Be  Usually, classroom
classics are classic for a valid reason. Some, if not most, of
the following even qualify under this heading, but that doesn't
stop a generous chunk of students, faculty, and professionals
from genuinely questioning their inclusion, or at least musing
what all the fuss seems to be about. People sometimes take the
literary canon's current status way, way too seriously than any
healthy individual should. Those who don't should sit back and
enjoy a few rounds of sacred cow tipping.    1. Wuthering
Heights by Emily Bronte: Oh, please. If Emily Bronte were alive
today, she'd be scripting MTV reality shows about how intimate
partner violence is ever so sexy. But because she's all
Victorian, she just glides into English classrooms with a
calculatingly casual, "'What's up?"    2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte
Bronte: Charlotte seems to think of men who lock their mentally
ill wives in the attic as raging sex gods, because that is
totally mysterious, attractive, and