Home economics was the most important class I had, I wish I'd paid more attention and treated it less a blowoff. Cooking, budgeting, nutrition are all skills th

Home economics was the most important class I had, I wish I'd paid more attention and treated it less a blowoff. Cooking, budgeting, nutrition are all skills that pay off nearly every single day of my life, not something I can say for my maths, physics and chemistry classes. Would have been even better if I took things seriously and learned to sew. Unfortunately the financial literacy we learned in home economics was limited, mostly around budgeting. We had some other classes that covered other finance/life aspects more but they were non-mandatory and post when many people left school in those days, probably would have been better off incorporated into home economics.