> Our schools do a VERY poor job of educating students on fiscal responsibility. It's actually something I think every high school should have as a required cou

> Our schools do a VERY poor job of educating students on fiscal responsibility. It's actually something I think every high school should have as a required course. I think it's actually that the nation is trying to do away with money, probably since before the Civil War, and up through the abolition of the Gold Standard. The reasons for declining literacy and numeracy (especially financial numeracy) are probably as simple as, "A really good job is being done & many find no use for these skills." Then, for those more-or-less willfully literate, for many years analogies were used as the assessments for entrance to the Universities. That baffles me for obvious reasons.