Why aren't schoolchildren taught to count with different number systems other than the decimal system?

I should mention, it's how I learned it, minus the base conversion. But it made learning base conversion on my own extremely intuitive because of the whole "borrowing tens" concept helping me realize place values better.

When I was a wee lad decades ago we were all taught base 5 and later base 8 in grade school. Now I'm old and decroded. But we beat those commies to the moon.

when will you ever have to count in binary for things other than developing programs?

you've got it backwards, retard

there's no reason for anything other than an enthusiast to "learn" bases other than two and ten because they are almost always useless

you don't pay your taxes in hexadecimal
you don't order cheeseburgers in ternary
why the fuck would you require teachers to teach this

you teach a student what base ten is and how to convert from base ten to all the other bases with an algorithm and you leave it at that
modern humans think in base ten, don't get it twisted

Utilitarian pls go

I was taught to learn to count in roman numerals.

>the concept of bases should be taught

I was taught the concept of bases in a poor ghetto Californian public school, so most likely they are generally taught in most of America.

We didn't belabor the point however, because what fucking relevance does it have in a general math class besides it's existence?

Actually, we were taught to do basic arithmetic like adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing in binary, hex and octal during our CS class

>utilitarianism
>posting on Veeky Forums

engineerfag brainlet pls go