My daughter’s teacher asked this question when she was in 8th grade and we were stationed in Hawaii. I got her to ask the teacher about Japan’s atrocities (Nanking, Battaan, Unit 731 etc). The teacher asked her where she heard about those and she told her from me (I’m a history nut). Teacher said the school didn’t feel that 8th graders were mature enough to learn about them so they would learn them in high school. Yet in 8th grade they were showing them films of the Holocaust.
“Yet in 8th grade they were showing them films of the Holocaust.”
I 8th grade Mr. DeBolt made us look at pictures from one of the camps. I remember him yelling at us “LOOK AT ‘EM. AND DON’T FORGET!”. I don’t remember anything being said about Japanese war crimes.