I'm very confused... I don't have access to the article because I don't want to make an account... But is it implying that soroban is not taught in schools? B

I'm very confused... I don't have access to the article because I don't want to make an account... But is it implying that soroban is not taught in schools? Because that is incorrect. It totally depends on the school, but the high school I taught in had an elective class in advanced soroban. Part of the class was passing a certain kentei level (I can't remember which one). We even had a soroban club and it was quite popular (about 25 people). In the countryside soroban are still used by some businesses so it is considered a reasonable skill to have. Anyway, the school I taught at was not an academic school, so most people didn't go to university. It had a business section for students intending to take over their parent's shop, etc. Most of the students in the business section took the soroban class (it might have even been all of them). In addition to soroban, they had classes in Excel and even SQL -- though no other programming language.