Is this just rebranding of the home economics class everyone took 20+ years ago in junior/senior high?
In my area (Fairfax County, VA), home ec class in the 90s was cooking and sewing. The "economics" part disappeared from the curriculum sometime before I entered high school.
Also, many college-bound students weren't allowed to take the class. It was a known waste of time - counselors actively pushed students towards more useful courses. In my case, that was a year of Latin as a senior (on top of 4 years of French).
An real home economics class - with personal finance as a primary focus - would be very useful, IMO. I'm sure we covered interest rates somewhere in high school math, but it was purely academic - not taught in terms of useful life skill.
In my area (Fairfax County, VA), home ec class in the 90s was cooking and sewing. The "economics" part disappeared from the curriculum sometime before I entered high school.
Also, many college-bound students weren't allowed to take the class. It was a known waste of time - counselors actively pushed students towards more useful courses. In my case, that was a year of Latin as a senior (on top of 4 years of French).
An real home economics class - with personal finance as a primary focus - would be very useful, IMO. I'm sure we covered interest rates somewhere in high school math, but it was purely academic - not taught in terms of useful life skill.