It has been headed this way for a while and “Common Core” has just totalled it. Especially in the lower grades.
History became a series of disconnected episodes- all of them with leftist ‘moral to the stories’ and now they are just teaching things out of context. I read that Common Core, completing this crappy progression, has the Emancipation Proclamation taught without any reference to the Civil War.
In other words history is not being taught any more for all intents and purposes.
FDR
no actual competition although Wilson deserves a mention.
I think we can trace this back to Horace Mann in the mid nineteenth century. He was a prime mover to put education under the control of the government. Nothing good has come of this.