56% of Americans think Arabic Numerals should not be taught in schools.
I blame the dumbing down of our education system. Instead of teaching students about the difference between a number and a numeral, and teaching them about different classes of numbers like natural numbers, whole numbers, integers, fractions, decimals, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, etc., our dumbed-down schools just teach students that there are just "numbers" and they are objective, universal, and real, rather than abstract imaginary objects. I bet most students don't even know that decimals are a way of expressing sums of fractions.
Please stop pretending that you know what schools do.
I'm not pretending. I know. ---
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