My wifey is a teacher in SD36. I have been trying to get her to use Markdown to make notes for kids and create worksheets/tests. I think this will work!
But when you need to provide tabular data (statistic results for example) ... and by people of Excel age ... challenging at least.
Support of various half-backed markups/markdowns is one of design goals.
5% of population is capable to be leaders - to manage people and businesses . There are 7% of people who have abstract minds to do science. We are not equal in this respect. At the same time that absolutely does not mean that we are bad or "second tier" people. Each of us has its perfect "half" that we love. Even more - love is not possible between twos who have absolutely similar characters and skills.
I was born in USSR so quite familiar with enforced equality.
And back to subject: being an author of HTML/CSS engine I am quite familiar with HTML/CSS. Yet did couple of Markdown-to-HTML parsers. So I know all this stuff from inside out. But still I cannot convince myself of typing structured texts using monospace fonts of plain text editors. That's inhumane at least. Proportional fonts are there on purpose.
Why, the heck, I or she shall use those "poor man WYSIWYGs" (Markdown & friends) in 21st century when robots are landing on asteroids and other planets?
If you meant it as a joke I don't actually mind that much, y'all are married, but it's when you're serious about it that people are going to call it out.