Teaching how to write summaries in the US would be a good idea. To make things even worse, in the US most essays are assigned a minimum length so students learn to pad their writing with lots of fluff and circumlocutions.
It took me quite a few years to realize how dry, boring, and repetitive this makes your writing, and I now choose to write as I talk. Might make for worse documentation, but it's far better for conversing with other people either in real time or in back-and-forths via email.
Say it (at length)
Say what you've said (briefly)
Is how you successfully present things in the US