Reality is that some schools do and some don’t. Like most things in life it isn’t black and white. I took an intro to computing systems once and we spent all s

Reality is that some schools do and some don’t. Like most things in life it isn’t black and white. I took an intro to computing systems once and we spent all semester using GDB to debug homeworks. We even had some extra credit assignment that were simple CTF-like challenges, all within GDB. Also I’m pretty certain if you take a binary explotation class or similar you will learn to use debuggers and even more advanced tools.