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We do. We even teach about vaccines. by Molly Maguires
And civics. And economics. And finance.
What we don't teach anymore (or at least was heavily deemphasized) is geography, cursive (go ahead and let me rant on it) and logic.
What we don't do is demand an hour of physical training to even gain entrance to the building.
We should start doing that after everybody gets vaccinated.
We should also add a course called "how to determine whether or not your internet source is bullshit." I'll leave it to the higher pay grades to come up with a better name for that class.