I had a parallelogram in my backyard last night. Thanks to classes in math, I was able to defeat it.

High schools now try to prepare all students for college instead of trying to prepare them for adulthood.

I learned how to do my taxes in high school. I needed math credits to graduate and Mr. Fields taught a basic math glass. A math for dummies as it were. Me and all the other goof offs.
We also learned budgeting, how interest works (not that a woman could actually get her own credit card in 1971) as well as doing ones income taxes.
My twin was not math challenged like I am, she aced algebra, etc. but never learned to do her own taxes, still has someone else do them. She also choose an adjustable rate loan for a time share she bought 4 years ago. Then bitched Biden hiked the interest rates. I pissed her off when I asked incredulously "You decided to do an an adjustable rate?" and then laughed, she hung up on me.

In the late 1990s I was transitioning from being employed in the printing industry to a self employed potter. I was renting out my condo, I was carrying the contract on a 10 acre parcel I had sold. I had an account with a broker to trade stocks and commodities (the trades have to be reported on different schedules) and I was buying my own home where my pottery studio was set up. I did all the work myself, 14 pages of forms and schedules. Just to be on the safe side I paid a tax accountant to review my work. He said I did great, he couldn't find anything wrong and I'd gotten the best outcome with the lowest amount due possible. He only charged me $50 since it was just a review and he found no extra ways to lower what I owned which was just under a hundred bucks. I may be math challenged but I can read instructions and do simple math.