Eli5: what has prevented braille and sign language from being taught in mainstream schools?

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It’s not necessarily more work to teach kids basic communication in both ASL and braille than some of the other things kids get taught in schools.

I can think of many benefits to society if the majority knows how to do both, so I’m genuinely curious why it never gained traction anywhere? Like, there are no countries on earth where the majority can communicate in sign language or read braille.

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Braille especially I think is quite rare and not useful for people who can see – I’ve read that even most blind people cannot read braille. I don’t think braille would be helpful for the majority of people.

Sign language is more common, but still rare. Why have everyone learn a language that is pretty uncommon rather than say Chinese or Spanish?

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