Financial Education for Kids

[bduke]

I noticed this piece in the Nat Post this AM, and it resonated with me.

http://tinyurl.com/6r2nnpk

How do you think youth should become financially astute, or do you
care?

Bill

[JDGreen]

One of the single biggest failures of the school systems. Finance and money management needs to be taught starting around grade 7. Should be a mandatory class till graduated from 12.

[wd9]

Um, teach them? Or maybe just leave their
face buried in their iphone.

[JDGreen]

One of the single biggest failures of the school systems. Finance and money management needs to be taught starting around grade 7. Should be a mandatory class till graduated from 12.

[wd9]

Um, teach them? Or maybe just leave their
face buried in their iphone.

[ColevilleH2S]

Think about it comrades. Do you really want radical left-wing union types teaching financial smarts to your children????

"OK students, the lesson today is how to refinance your mortgage 11 times in 20 years."

[sumdumguy]

No, No, No, No.

These kooks who design the curriculum have
totally screwed up the kids with New Math.

It is a disaster. No, you dont need the
multiplication table nor divide. They dont carry the
tens so tney cant add up a strong of numbers.
The kids just estimate and come close. I spoke to
the teacher and she said, "this isn't how I learned
math. I am having trouble woth it, too." , " but
some kids like it." Great, they are really getting
screwed up. Parents should take to the streets!

Professors are screaming, "turn this bus around"
"and Wall put a fewoliticians on some board to
say, its ok. Probably the politicians had
tnecurriculum planners advising.

So No don't let these buffoons screw up these
kids anymore.

[oneoff]

Exactly; it is the parents who are responsible. Teachers teach the curriculum they are handed.
Where do people get such ideas as teachers being left-wing kooks. Thats like saying Conseravatives couldn't/wouldn't even contemplate a teaching profession.
And thats another novel thought.

[sumdumguy]

Not all teachers are socialists, but the union has
made their job pretty sweet, agree?

[oneoff]

And I say good for them. In fact why not arrange a siliar system for farmers. Or do we like taking prices; being manipulated every which way, and in the end being reliant on government aid programs for most to even survive.

But the good/bad news has or will continue to come; especially for those who do have some legitimate bad luck. fbes

[wilagro]

oneoff: You have to be joking...a system where farmer's speak with one voice? A system where we have an organization selling our production on our behalf?

Well that would never do...it was tried a number of times and it didn't work. Don't you recall the Wheat Pools and the CWB...all shut down. Farmers want FREEDUMB to become financial experts and market watchers and price takers from the few grain buyers left in the country.

[oneoff]

I know....I am not joking....and I guess it our self imposed fate.

[sumdumguy]

Just like ASAP? That's what some RM s.
thought.

[Fransisco]

Two books that should be mandatory reading are "The Wealthy Barber" and " Economics in One Lesson".

[oneoff]

And on the controversial issues our "leaders" decide not to take a stand. What a cop out.