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> Start with why. (Thank you Simon Sinek.) Are there meaningful, ongoing benefits to learning how to make specific decisions with your money? It's a great appr
by PaulDavisThe1st 2y ago
> Start with why. (Thank you Simon Sinek.) Are there meaningful, ongoing benefits to learning how to make specific decisions with your money?
It's a great approach when the "meaningful, ongoing benefits" start to occur either immediately, or in the near future when you're living a life very, very much like the one you're living today.
The difficulty of doing that within the context of educating 5-18 (+/- 4) years olds is that benefits (and costs) of learning (or not) are far, far down the road, in a life that they can typically not even imagine with any degree of accuracy.
- toast0 2y agoMany high schoolers on the cusp of needing some finanical literacy. They may be starting their first jobs, and making a budget and saving for a rainy day would be good skills. Others are about to borrow for college and financial understanding could help them avoid getting into a lot of debt in order to struggle at a degree that they end up not attaining, or in order to attain a degree that doesn't add up economically. Some may be moving out (voluntarily or not) and need to have an income, find a place an pay rent, pay for food and utilities, etc, with potentially little room for error.