[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.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

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

[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...

[linMcHlp]

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

[Paladin2]

Sounds like Congress could use some edumacation in finance too.

[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.

[mware]

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.

[Sacajaweau]

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.

[Political Junkie Too]

Home economics was an offered course when I was in high school, but I suppose some things had to be dropped to make room for all the social justice and indoctrination classes the filled up the curriculum so much that the "three R's" got pushed off as homework.

-PJ

[ealgeone]

Lesson one.

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.

[Seruzawa]

Public schools teaching something useful? Surely you jest

[Organic Panic]

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.