Homeschool?

I'm not trying to be critical of posters here, but I have seen enough to make me think we aren't making sure that kids have a basic understanding of terms and events such as coup, McCarthyism, economics, the Great Depression, WWI and WWII, their causes and effects.... I would doubt that most of those posts came from folks that attended private schools. The reason for teaching history is so we don't doom our kids to repeat the mistakes that we and our forebearers made. If they don't know what appeasement is, and the heartbreaks it causes, how can they make good decisions to avoid it in the future. If they don't know the effects caused by behaviors and policies in the 1920's how can they avoid another Great Depression. When I was in school, they didn't cover anything beyond the Civil War, but there were still many people around who were born in the late 1800's and could and did tell me about the missing parts. Laura Ingalls Wilder only died five years before I was born. But those folks are long gone now. The WWII veterans are dying by the hundreds each day. Who is filling in those parts of history for kids if it isn't being taught in schools. And how will that gap define public policy in the future?