As a parent with kids in school the way it works here is in middle school they have social studies which is sort of a broader survey of history, culture, religion, current events. In high school is when they begin History class proper. Three years History 1 & 2 (something like world history and US history) then a choice of 2 half year electives. Education is a state to state thing. I live in a left-left state and it’s still regular history here.
The latest "critical race theory" whitey outrage is telling him that they're changing "history" to "social studies". I grew up in the south and social studies is exactly as you describe down there as well. This was 20 yrs ago.
That is just a knee jerk hypberolic reaction. Teachers in public schools are not indoctrinating kids on anything... If teaching kids what slavery is means they are being indoctrinated that is pretty narrow ignorant thinking. The fact that most Americans know nothing about Jim Crow, lynchings or Loving v. Virginia shows how bad the education system is in indoctrinating them against learning all history, not just the shiny white parts. Teachers are not indoctrinating but I had a funny incident happen at my son's school in the lower grades. A parent (white) lost his shit to the kindergarten teacher when he found out the class was learning about Martin Luther King Jr. and his famous speech. School had to forbid him from school grounds because of how threatening he got. yeah this shit still happens in 2020.
i was floored when I heard about this incident, I think it was 2019 or 2020, not sure because it was in kindergarten but I knew the teacher so the story got back to me as my son was in the upper school attached. First he wrote an email about teaching anything from that man and then he approached the teacher in the hallway on pickup and while not yelling was very angry and upset. I heard the daughter is an angel in class so this fucktard is going to ruin this child sadly. he was told to leave the school property and then was banned. He pulled his kid out a month later after getting a lawyer letter haha... It is scary what happens nowadays out in the open. As usual a pendullum swings back as far the other way and CRT is trying to fix things by being extreme. In my country a parent got up at a school board meeting and claimed CRT was marxist socialist indoctrination (was on the news).... I was like.....do you even know what marxist socialist indoctrination is or do you pick words FOX news tells you to say. CRT is making the issue worse by allowing the far right to scare parents that white history is being erased or some shit like that and the far left is pushing it as some sort of reparation. It will not end well. Problem is most schools do a good job of history but it changes state to state. Like Morgan Freeman said (and I paraphrase) " I don't like Black History Month.... when is White History Month? Why is my history relegated to one month? Black history is part of American History and should simply be included, not segregated out into a month"
I really don't buy into the CRT outrage yet. All these stories are generally some wokester trying to push his shit and it just gets slapped w/CRT on fox so am afraid that's what the casual reader may be reacting to. When you care to dig deep is just a bunch of misconstrued BS. I'd say if you care (I stopped after half a dozen crying wolf stories) just read into it a bit more.