It's rare to find a public school system where history is taught these days, Chris. It's all about getting the highest test scores in the district and state, in math, reading and science. Public schools have gone to Hell in the past 35 years.
It's why you can have President that can bloviate long and loud about Andrew Jackson's struggles being President during the Civil War, Jackson having been dead for over 15 years before it started, without being ran out of office for being a blithering idiot about the history of the country he's been elected to be Chief Executive of. Half of the country is as woefully ignorant as he is, due largely to being failed by the educational "reforms" of the mid-80's.