was my mandated reading weird?

[keryx]

I assumed that pretty much everyone had to read Das Kapital and/or The Communist Manifesto in high school, since I'm pretty sure I had to read them in middle school [The main academic contribution of my private schooling was its social studies curriculum; handy for political discourse, though I'm ill equipped to lead a bus tour of Civil War sites.].

At least - I read them both at some point, and it wasn't in college cause I remember arguing with someone about the contents of Capital in a freshman seminar.

Anyhow. Indulge my curiosity? What year did you graduate high school (or the equivalent secondary school in your part of the world)? And did you have to read either of these books?