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They did teach us financial literacy.

If you found it important as a reasonably intelligent adult you could teach yourself basic financial literacy in an afternoon.

To be fair though if someone can't count up to four then financial literacy probably isn't in their future.

As many comments pointed out already, in the USA we usually learn to play the recorder in 3rd grade. It's not exactly an age where it makes any sense to try and learn how home mortgages work.

Though, I very much recall having some basic "personal finance" education in elementary school. It's the age where you are learning about currency denominations. How many quarters, dimes, etc. to make a dollar.

When I was in high school we were all required to take an "Economics" class where they did try to cover balancing a checkbook and basics like that. I just don't think most kids paid much attention. I know I didn't.

Ya'll won't be laughing when people are paying me good money to get the snakes out of their cities.

All education should be about creating productive citizens for the state!

I mostly pretended to play and copied the finger movements of the kid next to me.

Am I the on,y one who never had to play a recorder?

Yeah because my elementary school teacher was crushing the market

why you were forced to learn the recorder in school

OP yearns for the boot of capital

why the fuck are you talking about recorders, it's a flute....? (searched for it just right now and found out that's the name in English and it doesn't make sense at all, but OK)

Anyway, they're cheap, light, accessible, straightforward: no complex skill required to blow or get a correct tone. Flute got me into reading music. Terrible teachers unable to comprehend that a teenager needs something fun to play instead of boring music study books got me out of it.