Though I have taught personal finance to high-schoolers, this really is a character issue. While a teacher can warn, cajole, and provide data - character must be taught AND modeled at home.
Well, this is probably true. but I still think it's funny that anyone would graduate from college without knowing how credit works. Of course, it would explain why lefty fiscal ideas are so popular with that age group.
True, and then there are people like me, who have to survive a coupla trainwrecks in their lives to develop it.
Limping, but gettin' by ;)
This whole "character education" charade needs to be curtailed immediately.
When most most eighth graders can't read at grade-level, or solve a simple algebraic equation, I don't think that burnishing their morals should be the first priority of the government.