It should be a combination of the two. Real life skills and important data along side proper education. The US is definitely not at the top of the education game by any means. We should have been rethinking high school curriculum a long time ago.
I agree. I just don't think anybody has taken initiative to do so. We should be teaching things in high school like why your credit score matters. What politics means for the younger demographic and what they can do to help.
MIT Solve has it right, we should just be integrating it into a younger crowd.
We should be teaching real life to students for sure. I agree.