I'm not going to beat up the public school system, as so many others do on these boards, but I'm not sure my kids would have ever had the deep appreciation for our heritage without the prodding and almost constant exposure we have given them since birth.
However isn't that our moral duty as parents, to teach our own children what we feel are the priorities we believe is best for them, and our schools are really responsible for covering their education with the broad brush to insure the full breath of knowledge exists before life's journey?