Nope. In fact, I distinctly remember one of my earlier frustrations of high school was asking the teacher how to do square roots. She said "with a calculator."

Nope. In fact, I distinctly remember one of my earlier frustrations of high school was asking the teacher how to do square roots. She said "with a calculator." "Yeah yeah, but how to do you do them by hand?" "You don't, you just need to use the calculator." I've never heard of anyone below the age of 30 learning in school how to do them manually.