No those books were good and I definitely had an interest in learning English reading those. But child brains can't focus(well not mine atleast) and those books have very hard English and no images to make them interesting. It did teach me to look up hard words in the dictionary and now I'm pretty decent in speaking/writing in English. But the bad thing that I would point out is exams. You can't be expected to writing words like that and 3 page answers to each question and that to determine whether you'll pass or fail. Like all my answers used to be correct but since I wrote less in pages I would always get less credit on my answers. Also as someone who's been diagnosed with ADHD the 3 hours during exams were hell. I kept zoning out and looking at everyone else instead of the exams. And the bullying ofc. Good and bad experiences alike. Still i fail to see why online courses woudn't do the same thing. Children are naturally curious to learn for themselves and forcing things obviously doesn't work.

I only read one of those books for school, Huck Finn. That was a good book. We only read a tiny bit of the Odyssey, which I also enjoyed. We just had lots I didn't like. Great Expectations, The Great Gadsby, Shakespeare (yea, all of it, I said it), and Canterbury Tales come to mind. The last one mostly because of it being middle (?) English.

And I read stuff now, and none of it is genres I read in school. Just for 10 years after high school I basically didn't read.