Twenty-Two-Year-Old Instagrammer Believes That Kids’ Mental Health Could Be Affected By Learning About WWII

This young man believes that kids shouldn’t learn about WWII, because it will make them sad.

Damjan

• Published in Interesting
• December 17, 2019

Good Morning Britain team was baffled, to say the least, after hearing a 22-year-old Instagram influencer explaining how he feels that learning about World War Two can affect kids’ mental wellbeing.

The Circle contestant Freddie Bentley thinks that discovering about the atrocities of the WWII, a conflict that raged across the world, left it in ruins, and claimed the lives of 80 million people, will make people feel sad.

He is deeply concerned about that fact, and he feels that schools should reduce the overall amount of information they give the students about that conflict.

Yes, you've read that right. It will make them sad. 

There is an ongoing debate on whether the young generations should be taught more about WWII in schools.

This controversy about millennials’ lack of understanding about the Second World War started when The Apprentice TV Show uncovered that some participants don’t even know when the war occurred.

When they were instructed to find something that dated “pre-WWII”, the members of one of the teams were not confident about when that was.

Freddie talked to Ben Shephard and Kate Garraway and said: "It was a hard situation, World War Two, I don't want anyone to think I'm being disrespectful. I remember learning it as a child thinking 'Oh my God it's so intense'."

He resumed: "I don't think encouraging death or telling people how many people died in the world war is going to make it better.

"There are so many problems going on in the world, like Brexit, that's not taught in schools.

"When I left school, it hit me like a ton of bricks - I didn't know anything to do with life."

He feels that the kids should learn about things like how to get a mortgage or something that has more to do with their future lives.

He didn’t say why the kids can’t be taught about both.

As expected with such a sensitive issue, the debate soon kicked off.

Somebody remarked: "Who is this idiot on Good Morning Britain saying that the deaths of WWII can cause mental health in people now?! Those soldiers gave their lives for your today..."

Another comment: "Why are Good Morning Britain allowing these young 'men' who look barely old enough to shave criticize people like my dad who was a Royal Marine Commando in WW2 because talking about war upsets their mental health....

"Christ, too cushy a life springs to mind."

A third said: "This fella on Good Morning Britain needs a good old slap, of course you need to learn about World War 2 you turnip."

Maybe they could have been a little bit softer in their comments, we wouldn’t want to make him sad.

The Apprentice participants disagreed over the dates.

Share your thoughts about this matter. Do kids need to learn about the WWII?

Damjan