I've always suspected that the primary education system purposefully avoids financial education because of fears that too many people attempting to join the ownership class would cause civil unrest.
I don't know what the motivation might be. What I do know, with absolute certainty, is that having a population that is ignorant about money, business and entrepreneurship isn't good for the nation.
If I had to extrapolate a motivating factor, it would go something like this:
For some unimaginable reason, US educators are in love with Marxism and Socialism. Unimaginable because anyone who has ever lived in those realities could not run from that shit fast enough to get elsewhere. A population knowledgeable about money, business and entrepreneurship would quickly reject these failed and broken ideologies (a historical fact).
As a strategy, it isn't a good idea to teach something that could lead people rejecting indoctrination efforts in a different direction.
On the right there's the effort to teach creationism and downplay evolution by natural selection. Same concept. Except, in that case, as far as I know, they are not being allowed to do that at our schools. This is the right way to handle such things.
Want to teach Creationism or Marxism. No problem, knowledge is good. Do not turn it into indoctrination. Students must be well versed in everything they need to know in order to understand these historical ideas that hold absolutely no water today. Teaching history is important. Pretending failed ideas are real viable ideas today is indoctrination.
Imagine if 90% of our schools jumped on the flat earth ideology and pushed it hard from K-12 and college and avoided teaching what we know to be true because it would reveal their ideology for what it is. Well, that's the situation I believe we have with respect to graduating financially savvy adults who understand business and entrepreneurship right out of the gate and can help elevate society to great new levels because of it. Instead, we are graduating business haters who will never build anything and will certainly not elevate any segment of society. The only way Marxists can have an audience is if they keep everyone poor, miserable and ignorant. A successful, accomplished and educated society isn't a good target market for shit ideas.
