Education: should it have a specific forum?

[Flavivs Aetivs]

Well here in the U.S. they basically don't teach Roman history at all. In a nutshell, in K-5th grade you learn U.S./American History. In 6th Grade you cover the founding of civilization through the Renaissance, which is divided up into Sumeria, Egypt, Greece, a brief mention of Rome, and then medieval Europe and the Renaissance cover the other half of the class. In 7th grade you go from the Renaissance to like just before WWI. In 8th Grade you do U.S. History in general. In 9th Grade you do World Geography, and then in 10th-12th grade you have to do U.S. History again and U.S. Constitution. In college you generally have to take a U.S. History course to knock your history and constitution general credits out of the way.

You literally will learn more about ancient Rome and the Medieval Era playing "Age of Empires" and "Total War" then you will in a college-level history course.

So that's the real problem. We have some teachers that do try and make their 6th grade history course interactive: a guy who joined our Legion is a 6th grade teacher and he contacted us about coming out and he was having his classes all dressed up like "Romans" and "Celts" using cardboard and duct tape and stuff to have a battle. I was the only one who made it out, but IMO it's teachers like that who make the difference.