Originally Posted by MumofThree
How is it not problematic for a child (or parent) to consider any history class to be purely "fact based". It's not math. Should we be happy if senior school child's history class consists of rote learning a list of "facts". Really?

Okay, I've only gotten to this part of your post, and it's eminently quotable, so much so that I'm tempted to quote it twice.

Digging back in!

What is to give light must endure burning.