Oh, definitely. While I don't live in the US (I'm Portuguese) and we never really touched politics in depth in High School (we talked about it briefly in Philosophy class), I can only imagine what's like in other countries.

Also, when you start attending high school in Portugal, you can choose between a science course or humanities [is that the right word?] course. I chose the first option, so that might be why I never really had any politics class in high school.

Lastly, for clarification, I was talking mostly about the average person. Most people (at least from what I've seen) that aren't interested in taking polysci in college tend to avoid engaging with political content or talk about it as a whole.