Kids don’t need to learn about taxes, they don’t pay them. They need to learn math. Math education is the key to success. Everything we do is based on math. Geometry teaches deductive reasoning in a way that nothing else can, with pictures.
I wish that I had emphasized math more with my own kids. I also wish that I had instilled the same sense of competition in education that my husband instilled in sports.
Pardon me but my grandson works as a stock boy so he does pay taxes. He is also a High School senior soon to go out into the world.
Kids don’t need to learn about taxes, they don’t pay them.”
Lots of children have to pay taxes including my grandson who has a trust fund with stock investments and a small business since the age of twelve.
IMO every junior and senior in high school should take a class in living skill training where they would learn about bank accounts, taxes, budgeting, purchasing/leasing a car, investing, determining cost of goods sold, comparison shopping, renting/buying a home, insurance, interest rates, credit cards, government borrowing, etc. It can incorporate all kinds of math as well as information on the financial structure of our government and will give them some practical application knowledge.
I think the semi-literate kid was really asking why they weren’t taught about free markets and capitalism.