Grammar instruction during my own public school career (mostly 70's) was brief and evidently taught during the gifted pullouts in elementary school.
I was mystified later that my non-GT classmates seemed to all have had such instruction, and my GT peers and myself had (universally) none.
This probably varied regionally/with school district. My daughter hasn't had a lot of grammar instruction, but she'd well and truly outstripped mine by the time she reached 6th grade. I don't even know some of the terms she is expected to know. Gerund?? What the heck is THAT? LOL.
