US high schoolers want financial education, but many schools don't offer it: survey

Fox Business ^ | 4/13/24 | Eric Revell

[Libloather]

...how to avoid debt (37%).

If it doesn't come with a rainbow flag, things should be fine. I remember taking a class on how to properly address an envelope. Balancing a checkbook would've been better.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

There's a dilemma here.

Anyone qualified to teach financial education wouldn't be teaching high school.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

...parents may be reluctant to teach their children about financial literacy...

...because they are financially illiterate themselves.

[Rurudyne]

It doesn’t take that much: just ask anyone paying cash and expecting correct change at a fast food drive thru.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

What's wrong with these kids? Isn't their year-long senior class in Pronouns, Grievances, and Systemic Racism sufficient?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Anyone qualified to teach financial education wouldn't be teaching high school.

We are not talking CPA stuff here.

Teach them to stay away from debt (I am looking at you, student loans) except for houses and maybe vehicles, and never sign a contract that makes them a revenue stream for the corporate monopolies.

[Chode]

when i was in elementary school, there was a savings plan and kids could put a nickel in a coin book every week kept by the teachers and you got it at the end of the year...

[blackdog]

Can the fed get some of those remedial classes?

[blackdog]

Isn’t there an app for that?

[Tacrolimus1mg]

We had Econ in high school, and it included managing a household budget, writing checks, calculating interest, and saving for retirement.

I graduated in 2005.

[The Free Engineer]

Public schools are about what the teachers want. The customers? Why would they care about them?

[Bullish]

Too many high school teachers don’t understand personal finance these days so how could they ever teach about it?

[Reily]

The educrat class have been opposed to this for long time. My father ca.paigned to get this and economics required for graduation. Tbe educrat class fought it tooth and nail & that was 50 years ago.

[Sacajaweau]

What's to know. Until you're 18, you can't do a thing anyways.

Get a job....you'll get a lesson...2 for me....one for uncle Sam...

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Almost anyone with practical skills wouldn’t want to teach in American public schools.

[linMcHlp]

Accounting course in high school, would have been a great idea.

[Sacajaweau]

lol...I graduated in ‘61...

[Paladin2]

Sounds like Congress could use some edumacation in finance too.

[huckfillary]

Look what an example we offer personally and nationally. Borrow, borrow, borrow, spend, spend, spend.

[Newtoidaho]

They all have the entirety of human knowledge at their fingertips in their phone, but somehow just want to sit at a desk and have some public teacher bureaucrat spoon feed them.