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As a parent of a 16 and almost 14 year old i'm effectively home schooling personal finance with them. My wife and I got none from our parents and were preyed up
by chasd00 8mo ago
As a parent of a 16 and almost 14 year old i'm effectively home schooling personal finance with them. My wife and I got none from our parents and were preyed upon constantly. I think I was 45 when i finally got my student loans paid off. My wife did many years in a dangerous, low-performing, HS as a teacher to get hers forgiven. Sending an 18 year old off to college without a solid understanding of finance is like throwing an 18 year old in the ocean while bleeding profusely and tasking them with swimming to shore, maybe a couple make it but the sharks will get the rest.
- WalterBright 8mo agoIt's a crying shame that public high schools do not teach basic finance, basic accounting, and how a business works. In other words, they don't teach anything about how our economy works.
- jancsika 8mo agohttps://www.wunc.org/show/due-south/2024-06-10/personal-finance-course-required-to-earn-high-school-diploma-for-ncs-public-school-class-of-2024 https://www.wunc.org/show/due-south/2024-06-10/personal-fina...
- bdangubic 8mo agothey do. maybe not where you live but they do. my kid has had personal finance classes since 4th grade
- WalterBright 8mo agoI attended 4 different public schools growing up, and none of them did. I see that some today do. But I still see college graduates ranting on X who clearly do not understand compound interest on their student loans.