High School Home Economics

I've been out of high school a decade so maybe I'm out of touch, but
shouldn't home economics classes teach how to balance a checkbook,
explore the pros/cons of credit cards, investing, learning about bank
loans such as mortgages (and pass that knowledge to parent, maybe the mortgage crisis wouldn't have been as bad), among other things?

I have yet to sew one thing, although I've baked brownies a few times.

Maybe more on this later...

EDIT: If you're involved with the academic ciriculum at a public high school, feel free to enlighten me on what is taught in home economics. Meanwhile, I'm going to try and find some sites that would post this type of info.