We covered in my 8th grade in my Soc. Studies/History class (in California, in the 80s), though maybe that was because the teacher was WW II obsessed. We watched a lot of films of WW II combat in the Pacific including bits of Corregidor falling to the Japanese as I recall and went over MacArthur's "I came out of Bataan and I shall return" speech, and watched a whole lot of films of combat with the teacher describing tracers and types of aircraft and talking about Kamikazes, so he might have just been a bit obsessed. Some HS history class went over the War in the Pacific too and covered the Philippines, though I can't recall if the Bataan Death March was mentioned.
