I'm not sure teaching certain life skills in a school setting will have much of an effect. They teach PE but that doesn't mean teenagers are active outside of that. Similarly, they can teach financial planning and nutrition, but people are going to tend to fall back on what they learned from their parents. If they grew up eating unhealthy then a class in high school probably isn't going to do much to change that.
Financial planning would be a little more useful, but much like nutrition the concepts are quite simple; it's actually putting it into practice that is more difficult for people.
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