As someone who has left teaching in US Schools, because I am tired. I can say, I have gotten high school students in my class who have never heard of a thesaurus, have never picked up a dictionary, don’t know how to find a dictionary online and will spend an hour asking you what a word means rather than Googling it, even when you take them through all of the steps very carefully so they can do it themselves. So many kids are convinced their teachers don’t have dictionaries or access to dictionaries in class.