We are doing something similar in our district. We took the one year of 8th grade US history and made it 7th and 8th grade, moving world history to 6th grade.
They might just be splitting up the course work. Most teachers can’t get past WWII in any depth with the time and testing requirements we have.
sorry didn’t look close enough, they should offer it, our make it a part of Government.
I will NEVER teach “Global Studies”.