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Which country's education system doesn't have any chemistry at all?

Chemical formulae are required study for 11-14 year olds in England, for what it's worth. (Probably starting with words: methane + oxygen → carbon dioxide, and later writing a balanced equation: CH₄ + 2O₂ → CO₂ + 2H₂O.) The reaction presented is obviously much, much more complicated, but the same concept.

Edit: catalysts are covered too, although I don't know if the notation of putting them above the → is introduced at this age. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zqd2mp3/revision/6

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This was in California. I had to take a science class but there were many options and I just took other things besides chemistry.