Oh my gosh. I vented myself almost to tears about this very reality yesterday.
When my mother went to school, she took Home Ec (where she learned cooking and sewing), there was woodshop, accounting, and all that jazz. When I was in high school most of that wasn't there and they may or may not have had an accounting class one year? Nevertheless, it wasn't required.
Quite a few of my peers are starting from nothing on cooking and sewing and building and balancing a checkbook. And all that kind of practical stuff. Smh.