Do you think Shakespeare should still be in the school curriculum?

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William Shakespeare's stories such as MacBeth, Romeo and Juliet and The Tempest are widely used in schools English Classes at least in the UK. But nowadays, children are finding it very hard to understand and appreciate. They find themselves shouting "Why do I need to learn this?!" at their teachers and parents, while those very adults wonder themselves where they have ever needed to know themselves apart from the English teachers who find themselves teaching the next generation of kids what they hated to learn themselves. So do you think this is precious time in school wasted and that it should be used to teach pupils about the hard world they are to live in, or do you think it is very important to make children understand it for knowledge of the older days? Or, do you think the subject should be moved into History classes? Teenagers find it the hardest coursework and find it easy to fail. It can be annoying not being able to get into college for being a joiner just because they failed their shakespeare work, for example.