The History of Chemistry in High School

We have understood what's going on in the nucleus much, much better in the last few decades because we've been shooting stuff at it and breaking it up. We think there might be an island of stability where you get like hundreds of protons and neutrons stuck together to make new super heavy stable elements nobody's ever seen before. So it's a complex field of study and it's probably not taught in high school chemistry because it's evolving and also because it's messy. And I don't think that high school sophomores aren't necessarily ready for it.