I listened to a female journalist one time. Can’t remember who it was. She had gone to her neice’s high school graduation and was asking some of the grads questions about America. My favorite was the one about who America had won its independence from. The H.S. grad responded with Vietnam. LOL!!! That’s great!!! Our publik skools are awesome!
Back when my sister was in high school, there was a gal in her senior social studies class who simply could not understand why America had had so much difficulty fighting in Vietnam, since it “was so close to us, and stuff.”
As it turned out, the gal had a little trouble with her geography. The place on the map she thought was Vietnam was actually occupied by...wait for it...*Baja California*.
And this was in the 1980s. Skools have only gotten worse since then, I fear.
I asked my neice the same question some years ago. She answered my question with a question; “Would that be American history or world history?”. She went on to get a BA in criminal justice but I still bust her when I see her.