If kids were actually taught money systems, how money works, how it moves in the economy, how it perpetuates inequality with its inception and flow, then there would be little problem with our current civilization. But the kids aren't taught it because their teachers weren't taught before them and few people care to understand, because it is too much a fabric of our present existence. This is a cycle which leads to a general madness when it comes to money.
Really, for the public system to educate based on plainly explaining how money works is too much to ask, I get it. But at least kids could be taught to live intelligently within the system and how to benefit from it as much as possible.