[user104658]

I'm not talking about the basics like washing your own clothes or how to make a food budget...

We're several generations deep into a society that has been deliberately driven towards debt by giant multinational financial institutions... So sure, in an ideal world parents would be prepping their kids thoroughly for this stuff, but in many cases they aren't. In many cases they don't even know how to do it for themselves, so how could they? I'm not talking about classes where someone stands at the front and says "don't get debts... Debts are bad, mmkay?" I'm talking about classes where things like loan terms, interest rates, potential consequences etc. are taught clearly by qualified financial experts. Parents can't teach these things because frankly, the majority of the time, they don't understand most of it themselves. These things have been deliberately obfuscated for decades.

And even if parents should do it, but aren't doing it, then what? "Tough ****, your parents shoulda taught you, toughen up!" is not an approach that works. It's an approach that leads to mental health problems and increases in suicide. We know this already.