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That is an interesting question. These are my thoughts on the topic:
Teachers are able to without emotion pass on information, data to their students.
On the face of it, parents who do all the above things you mentioned, should be able to easily pass on the ability to the same to their children. But they don't. I believe psychology has a lot to do with it. Some parents still think that they shouldn't share household financial information with their children. They may think sharing financial information may lower the their own status in the children's eyes. Perhaps, they may be embarrassed by the amount of debt that they have incurred on their credit card. Another possibility may be that they were never formally taught by their own parents about personal finance so they never considered it their own obligation to pass on to their children.
In my experience, teachers that are able to do everything without emotion are simply there for a paycheck, and in fact, are not good teachers at all.
But it sounds like you want to dump yet another job on to them, that parents themselves should be doing. Perhaps if the parents are embarrassed at the amount of debt they've racked up, they should admit that fact, and teach the child not to do it, and show the child exactly where the problems come in (even using your delayed gratification example).
Getting mad about what a class DOES teach, when it infringes on your personal beliefs isn't any better than expecting a class to teach only what you feel they should teach because for whatever reason, you don't want to. (you being collective; not you personally)