Financial Education for Kids

[bduke]

I noticed this piece in the Nat Post this AM, and it resonated with me.

http://tinyurl.com/6r2nnpk

How do you think youth should become financially astute, or do you
care?

Bill

[JDGreen]

One of the single biggest failures of the school systems. Finance and money management needs to be taught starting around grade 7. Should be a mandatory class till graduated from 12.

[wd9]

Um, teach them? Or maybe just leave their
face buried in their iphone.

[JDGreen]

One of the single biggest failures of the school systems. Finance and money management needs to be taught starting around grade 7. Should be a mandatory class till graduated from 12.

[wd9]

Um, teach them? Or maybe just leave their
face buried in their iphone.

[ColevilleH2S]

Think about it comrades. Do you really want radical left-wing union types teaching financial smarts to your children????

"OK students, the lesson today is how to refinance your mortgage 11 times in 20 years."

[sumdumguy]

No, No, No, No.

These kooks who design the curriculum have
totally screwed up the kids with New Math.

It is a disaster. No, you dont need the
multiplication table nor divide. They dont carry the
tens so tney cant add up a strong of numbers.
The kids just estimate and come close. I spoke to
the teacher and she said, "this isn't how I learned
math. I am having trouble woth it, too." , " but
some kids like it." Great, they are really getting
screwed up. Parents should take to the streets!

Professors are screaming, "turn this bus around"
"and Wall put a fewoliticians on some board to
say, its ok. Probably the politicians had
tnecurriculum planners advising.

So No don't let these buffoons screw up these
kids anymore.

[oneoff]

Exactly; it is the parents who are responsible. Teachers teach the curriculum they are handed.
Where do people get such ideas as teachers being left-wing kooks. Thats like saying Conseravatives couldn't/wouldn't even contemplate a teaching profession.
And thats another novel thought.

[sumdumguy]

Not all teachers are socialists, but the union has
made their job pretty sweet, agree?

[oneoff]

And I say good for them. In fact why not arrange a siliar system for farmers. Or do we like taking prices; being manipulated every which way, and in the end being reliant on government aid programs for most to even survive.

But the good/bad news has or will continue to come; especially for those who do have some legitimate bad luck. fbes