re: Do kids still read Johnny Tremaine?

I'm kind of shocked at how few classics my kid has to read in high school. Almost every book their teacher forces them to read has something to do with Jews and the Holocaust. He's reading The Scarlet Letter right now, which is probably the first book he's read that I've read in school. And the damn teacher made them make a letter for one of their "sins" and walk around school wearing it all day long. I was kinda pissed.