Did you go to a public school? If you did, think back on all the kids that were your classmates. Not just the ones in the honors and AP courses you probably to

Did you go to a public school? If you did, think back on all the kids that were your classmates. Not just the ones in the honors and AP courses you probably took, but all of them. Do you really find it surprising that they didn't learn or retain various bits of seemingly simple information? If you went to some kind of magnet school with only the smart kids, take my word for it - a huge percentage of 14-17 year olds have absolutely no interest in learning and remembering what inflation is and how it works. Some of them will find some internal curiosity later in life, but plenty will never change much. This is a minor pet peeve of mine developed from too much time spent reading internet comments years ago where young people would complain "why wasn't XYZ taught in school??". Very often the answer is - It was, but you were a bad student.