Fine for college-bound kids.
What about the kids not going to college? There still are some who don't. Quite a few. Do they never get a shot at a serious analytical course on a seminal cultural work?
It would, after all, be an elective.
BTW, it ought to be the King James Version. In his work Literature and Western Man, J.B. Priestley stated that the KJV is the only instance that he knew of in which literature, real literature, was produced by a committee.
If someone's faith is undermined by studying a religious work as a work of art, his faith isn't worth a damn anyway.