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Karnage | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 School does attempt to give you all of this information but what kids receive and what kids retain can be a huge difference.
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AbstractEquilibrium | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 It's hard to not retain something that you need to deal with daily.  It takes time & energy to create adults who can't balance a budget or answer the question "what is money?" but go and spend money every day
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Karnage | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I can’t speak for everyone but personally, I retained very little from school because I just didn’t care. I had to develop genuine interest for information to stick.