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There were FACS (Family and Consumer Studies/Sciences) courses in our middle and high school curricula. Nutrition, cooking, sewing; family planning, carry a digital baby for awhile

Home economics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_economics

* Family planning

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_planning

> * Personal Finance (budgets, interest, growth, inflation, retirement)

Personal Finance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_finance

Khan Academy > College, careers, and more > Personal finance https://www.khanacademy.org/college-careers-more/personal-fi...

"CS 007: Personal Finance For Engineers" https://cs007.blog

https://reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki

> * Food Science (nutrition, meal planning for n people, food prep safety, how long certain things can safely be left out on the counter)

Food Science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_science

Dietary management https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary_management

Nutrition Education: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutrition_Education

MyPlate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyPlate

Healthy Eating Plate https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-eating-...

How to make salads, smoothies, sandwiches

How to compost and avoid unnecessary packaging

* School, College, Testing, "How Children Learn"

GED, SAT, ACT, MCAT, LSAT, GRE, GMAT, ASVAB

Defending a Thesis, Bar Exam, Boards

Khan Academy > College, careers, and more https://www.khanacademy.org/college-careers-more

Educational Testing https://wrdrd.github.io/docs/consulting/educational-testing

529 Plans (can be used for qualifying educational expenses for any person) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/529_plan

Middle School "Glimpse" project: Past, Present, Future. Present, Future: plan your 4-year highschool course plan, pick 3 careers, pick 3 colleges (and how much they cost)

High school literature: write a narrative essay for college admissions

* Health and Medicine

How to add emergency contact and health information to your phone, carseat (ICE: In Case of Emergency)

How to get health insurance ( https://healthcare.gov/ )

"What's your blood type?" (?!)

Khan Academy > Science > Health and Medicine https://www.khanacademy.org/science/health-and-medicine



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