While I agree that a lot of parents really do need to take a more direct role in their child's development, I find the idea of parents teaching their kids finances to just be horrendous. It'd be like making it so every parent has to teach their kids about advanced calculus. Some would be great, some wouldn't know and might get help, but the majority would just make up stuff from their own knowledge because they don't want to be seen as somebody that doesn't know that kind of "common knowledge" stuff. So they teach the wrong crap to their kid, kid grows up and teaches the same wrong crap to their kids.
We had a course called work theory and I thought we'd learn stuff like that there. But what did we learn? How to run a cow farm. And to this day I am still waiting for the moment where I think: Thank God, I learned how to run a cow farm in school! I don't know how people survive without knowing!
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· 9 years ago
Bahaha I'm laughing so hard over here. This is why I like being an early childhood educator: we get to design curriculum that actually suits the children's needs and interests rather than whatever the hell the state thinks is important. Like cow farming.
At my middle school we have a financial literacy class, along with career literacy. Apparently we'll learn how to manage money and how much different jobs make.
I don't know how this is only a year old but those classes didn't prepare me for anything except for teaching me I really don't want to buy a car and that there's an amusement park in Canada that has really cheap season passes
It is a requirement at my school to graduate, but the course doesn't really teach you that much real-life application concepts...
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· 9 years ago
I had that class back when I was in 11th grade. I remember learning about Bouncing checks, how to get a car for cheap, savings accounts, mortgages, and other things along those lines.
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