The "Lincoln" film

[L Verge]

You are so right in your assessment of what children get from movies today. The only thing we can hope is that those sixth graders got something via osmosis that will click in their heads when they get a good history teacher somewhere along the line.

I think it's wonderful that your patient arranged such a trip for the children, and I suspect that at least a few of them enjoyed the movie, but were not going to let on to their "cool" classmates that they did.