re: #194 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

You and I are old enough to remember schools that actually taught children.

I suspect this varies a lot by school district. My kids took APUSH (AP U.S. History I think) and learned way more about U.S. history than I ever did. Not just facts and dates either - analysis and lines of argument and thought. I can’t speak for what kids in less funded and more conservative areas are learning, but blue suburban schools aren’t messing around - if only because they want their kids to get into good colleges.