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Okay, but to be fair, school does not teach about taxes.
Probably because if they did, they would have a neverending supply of rebellious little adults on their hands, from either side of the political sphere.
This is not very helpful when you're making little cog workers and soldier yes men.
I do volunteer work in schools and have a unit focused on taxes. It's always funny to see little 2nd graders go "wait, I don't get to keep all of my money?!"
But then we do explain that taxes pay for important stuff, like the school we're in and their teacher's salary.
Yeah, but once you get them a few years older, you need to start explaining the less useful things taxes go into and how divisive the entire topic is.
Why would knowing about taxes a few years earlier make you rebellious?
Well if the kids end up restless add another class about the political system and how to effectively participate at the local, state, and federal... oh.
My school did(or supposed to) teachuse about taxes
Came in to say something similar.
Another issue is that people don't remember anything from school because they have no reason to. Stuff isn't taught, it's trained for the next test and then promptly discarded as useless. The purpose of school is to train factory line workers to be able to do one repetitive task over and over again. It's how the public school system was originally designed.
School almost made me hate learning, and I love learning new things and skills. I literally never learned how to actually learn and be afraid to make mistakes until after I dropped out of college. I still struggle with it in my 30s.
I don't know. I read pretty often, and I learned how to do that at school.