You are kind of off the deep end in this whole thing.  You are hoping that they read some books that you feel are classics, and the point is, they can read whatever they want.  This article is about bringing a bible to school so that those who choose to do so can read it.  Those same students as well as all the others can choose to bring in any other book they want to bring in and read it.  The point is, your comment was really not at all worthwhile.