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If anything, the public school education I received (US, '90s-'00s) went out of its way to provide this kind of background. Did it sink in for a lot of kids? Probably not. It's really hard to test for that, and if public schools actually tried to hold kids back who didn't truly absorb the material there would be riots.

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Education was in NJ, same time period as you, same experience. Teachers made sure to show us how the things we were learning followed from the other things that we knew. I always loved that because it's much easier to remember things when you know how they derive from other concepts.

Same experience, same timeframe in TX. I remember learning about shadows in Egypt vs Greece during the same day of the year and thinking it was really cool. In elementary school even.

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