Thread: Should a basic personal finance class be mandtory in High School?
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Old 04-28-08, 08:28 PM   #24 (permalink)
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Re: Should a basic personal finance class be mandtory in High School?
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Originally Posted by talloulou View Post
They should definitely teach a finance course in high school. Not only do kids need to learn how to balance a checkbook but they need to understand how credit cards work. It would also be advantageous to go over investing too and maybe play some games where they have pretend money invested in the stock market over a semester and see how they do with that.
Thats exactly what we did in our economics class. Its kind of suprising to me that it isn't cirriculum in other areas you guys are from.
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