How do you deal with "the classics" in your school library media centers?

[Carina Gonzalez]

I am currently weeding and I'm literally finding book worms inside some of these books.  They are covered in dust and cobwebs and falling apart at the seams.  They need to come off the shelves.

However, questions keep popping in to my head. Like...

If those particular titles AREN'T being taught in this school, should I bother replacing them?  I have always seen the responsibility of a school library to be supporting the curriculum, the common core standards, and to promote literacy (both information and otherwise).The students obviously aren't taking them out for pleasure reading, so shouldn't I instead make way for books they will?  It feels "wrong" to pull Alcott, Faulkner, Dickens, Bronte, and Cooper off the shelves but....they take up so much space and it seems silly to keep them just because the students SHOULD read them.  I'd love your thoughts!

[Christine Sitter]

I'm weeding as well, and the situation here is the same.  Relevance is important but the amount of falling apart, outdated, classics are sadly growing.  I'll always keep one copy, but all else is being recycled.  

I've been checking online for edition and value, and thankfully there are free copies of classics available.  

The library is ever-changing.  Once books become a wall decoration, something's gotta give...right?