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Originally Posted by Boomer
OK, so we all knew what we were doing.
So now what?
Last night I wrote a rant in this thread.
I am telling you this morning, rant or not, I know I am right.
Financial education must be put into our schools. Really put into our schools. Not just played around with in some classes here and there. It needs to be there just like the 3 R's. Our future depends on it. And like I said last night -- the ROI would be phenomenal. It's our best chance to make a dent in the money ignorance and irresponsibility that just seems to be accepted as going with the territory of American life now -- on all levels.
If you wonder what I am babbling about this morning, see last night's rant here. I usually don't get too self-righteous about stuff. I figure what's the point? But on this one, oh yeah. I am right. I know I'm right. I am absolutely passionate about how right I am. I just know it. I just know it. I just know it.
Whew!
Seeya later.
Boomer
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Public education can be a thread (or board) all its own.
There was a time it worked, and folks learned a lot.
Agree with the need for revised curricula, and the inclusion of basic personal finances as a topic makes sense. However, just plugging it into a curriculum, especially where kids can't add without a calculator or read the content of a bank statement may not cut it.
It's also doesn't say much when government (in this case, public school systems) are expected to take over another life element of what should occur within the family circle.
At the rate we are going, as it is in Communist countries, kids may as well be just turned over to the state every morning as soon as they can walk, be "taught" all of life's issues (not just the 3Rs and related subjects) by government employees according to a state-approved script, kept in communal centers before-and-after school where they are temporarily parented until the facility closes, and then returned to their legal parent(s) until the cycle starts again the next day - with little to no relationship time actually occuring between the parent(s) and child(ren). OH, EXCUSE ME - that IS what is going on now!