Posted on 04/13/2024 3:37:56 PM PDT by Libloather
Have them open a bank account and a brokerage account.
I guess that as long as they know their pronouns everything will be just fine. Sucks to be them.
One of my friends who teacher financial education to middle schoolers has a project that all the students have to complete to pass the class. They chose an occupation which has a specific salary. With that salary the have to chose their housing, utilities, transportation, living expense, etc for a year.
One of the best classes I took right out of high school was contract law. IBM offered a class. No reason it couldn’t be taught in High School.
when I was in Jr. high one could enroll in Home Economics in the 7th grade but none of the boys dared to be branded a woose. the next year 2 guys signed up for home economics. later that year those two guys were dating a different class of woman than the rest of us. by the 9th grade, 12 guys had signed up for Home Economics. the point is that true economics begins at home and home economics taught many students how. most of those guys I knew personally who took home ec not only became businessmen and community leaders but also married many of the economically savvy women they classed with.
-PJ
Wish I had learned about inflation, as part of the accounting class (that did not exist) in high school.
Show a paystub.
Point out the deductions for OASDI.
Then explain the rate of return on the social security "benefit" and contrast it with the average return of say the S&P 500.
That'll push some over to the GOP side.
Public schools teaching something useful? Surely you jest
I remember “home economics” courses way back in middle school. How to open bank accounts. How to write checks. How to balance and reconcile accounts. How to keep track of bills. How to pay bills. How to COOK. Now. I have no idea if they still teach such basic skills. But I still go all the way back and remember small things once in a while when I’m writing a check.
they’re too busy learning about communist MLK and ‘diversity’ and LBGTQ crap. There’s ‘no time’ to learn about important things.
Wouldn’t financial education be considered racist?
I took an economics course and an accounting course in high school.
But it wasn’t a public school.
No Home Ec in your high school? It was a required course in mine. The boys had to take Bachelor’s Survival, which was a much more fun name.
students need to be taught how to manage money and how to eat.
those are the basics. parents generally don’t teach that.
Teachers unions trying to get a reason for their existence.
These used to be called home ec. and/or arithmetic classes.
Unions are trying to scare parents so that the parents will think that the students need public school teachers.
They’re trying to get a petition on the ballot in my neck o’ the woods. Filthy lies.
These students are better off bracing up, sticking their face out as far as possible, and getting smacked with the reality that they must; 1. accept that it is ignorant to wait for these bureaucrats to teach them anything, and 2. while it's scary to be on their own, accept that they're on their own and can seek out the correct answers.
They can modify the Killhouse Rules to their needs:
1. Nobody is coming to save you.
2. Everything is your responsibility.
3. Save who needs to be saved. Join up with those who will help you.
4. Kill who needs to be killed. Keep distant from those who lie to you and would drag you down. (Their own parents threw them to the wolves of the Indoctrination Industry).
5. Always be working.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen, nineteen and six, result happiness.Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
My nephew is 11. When he turns 16, I plan to give him a book by Ben Franklin “The Way to Wealth.” Plus I’ll do my best to give him a financial education.
That's because the parents don't know either.
This is something I think if the parent's responsibility.
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