Or the schools could just return to teaching American history and civics by the people, places, and dates. When I learned such things in middle and high school at the turn of the millennium, we had to memorize and recite documents such as the Preamble to the Constitution and the Gettysburg Address, and my high school civics teacher taught us landmark Supreme Court cases and encouraged us to participate in American self-governance by being informed citizens and actively voting.
Wait, I went to school in Virginia, not California.
Unfortunatly all teachers who have that kbnowledge are dead or retired. It has not been taught in college for years. Better to eliminate it until new teachers can be trained. Besides it will take full time to teach the kids to read write and add.
I remember the 12th grade in Bama so well. They handed me a math book that was nine years old. Then they gave me a English literature book that was 24 years old. Finally...the American civics book? It was fourteen years old.
I look at my son over the past ten years...none of his books were more than three years old.
My grandchildren had to recite/memorize the Preamble in the 5th grade. Unfortunately, that teacher has retired.