Romeo & Juliet stars sue over 1968 film’s teen nude scene

Someone explain why R & J is still on school curriculums. I'm a big fan of the bard, but I absolutely despise this play. It's just awful. The only character who is well drawn is Mercutio, and when he dies, the play has zero interest at all. All the other characters are complete morons and for a fellow who wrote some of the best dialogue in history, I can't get around all the dumb lines in this play, not to mention all the deus ex machina he inserts to drive forward the ridiculous plot.
Teenagers hate it, so why does the system insist on forcing it on them when there literally are dozens of fantastic Shakespeare plays to present instead?

Sorry to threadjack, just had to rant. - also, the Bahz Luhrman film could not have sucked any worse than it did. I was amazed someone could make me dislike R & J even more than I already did.

Back to subject: I hope Whiting and Hussey win this lawsuit and the multiple number of monsters like Zeffirelli operating in Hollywood will be driven out of power due to producers fearing lawsuits.