I agree 100%. Back when my son was in high school I did some substitute teaching at our large suburban high school. (The same one which in later years put astroturf and a jumbotron on the football field with MY property taxes!)
Anyway, I had a general business class and it was full of kids who weren’t probably going to graduate, let alone go to college. They had a lesson on managing a checkbook and I couldn’t get them to pay attention, until I went on a rant about how if they didn’t understand this they would end up kicked out of their apartments and living on the street. I got their attention for that one lesson, but I don’t know if the regular teacher was able to get through.
But these kids were better off than the kids who were in the college prep classes. They didn’t get ANY information.
My son had to learn about it at home from me, and I wasn’t any great shakes at checking accounts because I had never been taught myself.
It’s a disgrace that we send kids out into the world without the basic information they need to function responsibly.
Having said that my school was not bad and if you wanted to learn about this sort of thing it was available to learn. In fact crazy as it sounds if you were hopeless at maths as I was you learned more about real life than those in the higher sets. We learned how to balance your bank account, read gas and electric meters, budget shopping lists etc etc. I think they took the view we would not have much idea with figures so try to put it over in everyday situations personally I thought she was a great idea shame the exam subject of arithmetic is thought much less useful than maths.