those who forget history are doomed to repeat it!!!
That's what they all say...
How can it be proven right if we learn all the history that is needed?
At least, in my school, we had some form of history class for most of our years in school.
I think maybe except elementary but you also would rarely go to other classrooms other than your own unlike middle school and high school. And of course, history in elementary was the sugared down stuff. Like how pilgrims came to America and met the Native Americans. And basically how they tell it to elementary school students is so much different then how they tell you about it in World History in 10th grade. In elementary it's quite literally like "and the pilgrims and Native Americans all danced and lived happily ever after" but in World Hist, it's European settlers constantly fighting for North/South American land, forcing Native Americans out of their homes, wiping out nations with the spread of disease, attempted enslavement, and the list goes on.
It's so funny and I love history for that. I feel like history has always interested me and is honestly an underrated subject. Everyone is always raving about science, saying how much they hate math and any literature-related class is very mixed but no one ever talks about how they feel about history.
Also, ancient civilizations have always been something that I wanted to learn more about but we barely touch on them in school. I think 6th-grade history was the only year where you actually looked at those ancient civilizations for longer. The Ancient Greek unit was the best by far and I'll not be interested in that. But all other histories are relatively current histories.
In elementary, there was no set history class but we would talk about the founding of America and stuff but everything we learned was sugarcoated and made to not traumitize children, which makes sense.
In 5th grade, half the year was U.S. history, more focused on the 1700s with George Washington and the American Revolution and stuff...the other half was more focused on our home state history which was a requirement in our state for students for some reason.
In 6th grade, we were able to learn about ancient world civilizations and I think digging into ancient religions was the most interesting.
In 7th grade, it was World Geography. That one was very unique and I enjoyed it. Well, at least the human geography part of it where we focused more on current civilizations rather than land geography. But I remember it also being fairly difficult because you had to memorize every country on each continent we studied (not even kidding...I bet you can imagine how difficult AfroEurasia was)
In 8th grade, it was U.S. History. This was more focused on the Post-founding of America. The Civil War especially.
9th grade, I didn't take any history classes since I was focusing on completing my PE/Health credits
10th graders are required to take World History, either regular or AP (I took regular). We did a lot of things in there but it was mostly about how countries got along (or didn't) with each other. But it covered a WIDE RANGE of things. I also took Civics where we learned about about the governmental side of things and we did a lot of studying the Constitution. And also Economics, a terrible teacher, but we learned about economics, hence the name.
11th grade is U.S. History. This one is interesting because you go from learning about early America to anything between the 1850s-1990s America (and a LOT happened in that time period). The WWII unit we just finished up with and was a very interesting experience...talking about Germany during this time, of course. Before then, it was sort of a taboo subject. We touched on it and everyone knew it happened but we never really talked about it. So that was the most memorable thing for this year.
After you complete your World History, U.S. History, Civics, and Economics credits, you no longer have to take any more history in high school! It is very interesting though and they have AP classes that go into more depth of individual things but that's about it.