That is absolutely not true and clothes are doe ore then termal protection. Clothes are highly important for reduction in exposure to bugs, they also help limit direct exposure to sum UV. Sure there are places where you can go without clothing and be relatively okay, but to be totally honest you used one example for very specific locales. Just because it “isn’t necessary” in one specific locale doesn’t mean they are a necessary part of the human experience.

Rather than focusing on cellphone utilization in schools which is mostly just for politicians to feign that they care about education, how about we, I don’t know fund schools better, reduce class sizes, and just in general made it less an environment that children want to escape using phones and more of a dialogue of learning and self discovery for kids. The classes that did the best for me were small with an engaging teacher who made you feel like you were part of the dialogue and not just a data point for standardized tests.

I did, and while you give a meek might be used to teach history using a physical example at an arbitrary time in the future, you seem to miss my rebuttal that those are few and far between and it is just as easy for its use to swing the other way in the future. Stop trying to get people to care about a plantation burning down. Even with your more “altruistic” take it comes off very distastful. I’ll leave with a quote from an article about it

“I wouldn’t necessarily say that the history is lost. This artifact is lost, but the history is still there,” Duggan said.

“If you’re mourning the loss of Nottoway, I would encourage you to learn more about it. Learn more about other plantation houses. You can still learn from that history.”

Link to article

Before you go defending places as lost chances at teaching history, maybe you should check into the place and see what kind of things it was used for. The website doesn’t seem to suggest it was used to teach history, just a glorified white people wedding venue.

https://www.nottoway.com/

While your sentiment is a good one, from experience of living around such historical sites, most I have seen are operated by people like United Daughters of the Confederacy. The street really goes both ways with historical sites and while they can be used as grand gestures to show a horrible past in physical form to some who may see it, it can also be used as a propaganda tool of “lost glory” as the dsughters put it.

There is a town not too far from where I live that has a long history that has tons of white washed messages by the Daughters. Its frankly gross, but many people in that town don’t bat an eye because those same historical buildings are used to re-enforce their view of the world not change their perspective.