Am I reading this correctly?
The California state content standards for history and social science (PDF, 68 pages, 846K) show zero coverage of world geography or history at the elementary school level. No identification of continents or countries on a map, no reading about Ancient Egypt, no conversation about national borders.
Those six years are entirely devoted to American and California state history and related topics.
Is it wise to postpone all discussion of the world beyond our borders until middle school? Won’t this leavee our children at a disadvantage on the world stage compared to students in those nations that have a more expansive definition of elementary social studies?
This looks like another area where concerned parents will supplement primary education at home, and the rest will fall behind.
