Posted on 05/02/2023 9:34:02 AM PDT by AT7Saluki
But the one-semester class has gone full-time because of “strong demand from students to make this a year-long course,” Peng said. Peng’s course has been such a hit that state lawmakers are considering making it mandatory, statewide.
What grabbed Peng’s eye in 2021 was an editorial in the school paper written by Anisha Singhal, who asked, “Calculus Before Checkbooks?” When Peng introduced the class in 2022, it was so popular that even Singhal ended up on a waitlist to get in.
The class covers mortgages, tax returns, student loans, and more. Singhal said that “If there was an empty seat in the class, students would come in and just listen.”
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Sounds like a class in “thinking white.”
It seems that everything lefties don’t like is white supremacy. When everything is racist, nothing is!
they don’t teach “writing” either....or times tables. I taught both to my granddaughter
Don't say that. It will get cancelled.
I believe it ended when schools graded themselves not on kids being successful in life after school, but on being "successful" getting into college like college in and of itself was the goal.
Don't get me wrong. I like my college education. My BS in computer science gave me good training and got my foot into doors that propelled a successful career. And my advanced math courses in high school helped me skip a lot of college courses (and also helped me be a smarter teen hobby programmer while I was learning coding on my own before college). But not everybody wants or needs that kind of education for that kind of career. Everybody, I mean everybody, ought to learn how to make a budget, save, and invest.
Next they’ll be teaching home making and auto repair... /S
Its a false comparison
Stuyvesant high school is NY’s ELITE high school
For example 19 (!!) Stuyvesant students were admitted to Harvard, 15 to Yale, and a whopping 58 to Cornell in 2020. And that’s just three Ivies — over 250 students were admitted to Binghamton and Stony Brook, top NY state public schools
Getting their kid into Stuyvesant High School is a life-goal for parents, particularly Asian ones.
Many kids there are already taking advanced math - so a course on financial literacy is simply a “fun” elective.
So its all about CULTURE, FAMILY and CONTROL OF PARENTS OVER BUREAUCRATS at school.
The same problem we see with education, over and over again with regards to education
Soon it was be called “Thinking Asian”.
I hope so!
It needs to be mandatory again!
Because somehow, somewhere along the way, people started looking down on those courses.
But, "Personal Finance" or "Consumer Math" courses are probably the most important math courses.
It sounds like the students themselves now want these courses. Good for them.
He got interested in the market when he was 12 and turned it into a hobby.
It is clearly a class intended to prepare selected students for their proper roles in bringing back slavery and establishing a fascist dictatorship.
Or something like that.
That sounds like auditing the class.
We didn’t have Auto repair, but we had electronics and we had trade school curricula. For driver’s license we took courses in Automotive Systems, map reading, auto check up, tire changing etc...
My granddaughter, 10 years old (twins, but not identical) are home-schooled by their mother. Bot girls are doing 8th grade work, with one of them doing college math (calculus 2). If they had been in regular school, they’d be in the 5th grade and not doing so good.
Meaning that, kids can do much better than what teachers and union heads and government think they can do. If kids are allowed to advance at their own pace, we’d be a lot better of as a nation.
It's not illegal to learn but good luck finding classes to teach finance, Constitutional Law, behavioral psychology, and philosophy, especially in how such fields have been corrupted and are being used against the citizenry.
They want people to be very very ignorant.
And they probably still can’t tell time on an analog clock.
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