All you people talking about how it's "educational": I'm doubling down here. Dumbing down history to the level of modern day action figures because "the kids c

All you people talking about how it's "educational": I'm doubling down here. Dumbing down history to the level of modern day action figures because "the kids can relate to it" is missing the point of "reading history." It's to realize that the past was not like now. Yes, it takes an effort to get the kids off their phones and pay attention to something other than each other. No one said teaching was easy. I'm sure it IS hard to make them realize that they didn't have cell phones, Internet, or flush toilets out there, and when a soldier was wounded, he suffered, screaming and thirsty, often for hours, and they didn't have good medical care for him when he was finally stretchered off. Somehow throughout history, some teachers and parents have managed to do it.