Financial Education for Kids

[Burbert]

Don't educate the kids, relative to
finances, you'll scare the heck outta
them. Start teaching mortgages, interest,
tax preparation. They'll all leave
Comedia fast as they kin git on the buses.

[oneoff]

Examine individual Canadian credit card debt; mortgages and personal loans and long term debt before you start to think you have the answers to the next generations life style.

[riders2010]

Have a couple relatives that teach, and I'll tell you about an evening we went to visit one of them.

The phone rang after 7 pm 5 times from parents. These were the topics

1. did my Johnny leave his socks at school, could you find them tommorrow for Johnny. By the way can you inject his new medication?

2. why did you scold my Johnny when he hit billy over the head with a baseball bat, he's only learning who he is and needs to find ways to express himself.

3. you gave sally an 85 in dance class and I see Anna has an 87 what the hell is up with that I take Sally 3 times a week to jazz classes.

4. what's wrong with bringing a dead cat to school? You do have a biology class right?

5. the reason my son Bto junior beat up on the hutterite kid 2 grades below is because he is bored, you are not challenging him enough. (when I heard that one, I wanted to grab the phone myself and give her this challenge, how are you gonna get the pointy part of my boot out of your ass lady?)

I thought the same about teachers all my life until I saw what the good ones do, the amount of time they spend does not end at 3:30. And nowadays the nut parents fully take advantage of the stupid laws protecting them and their nutty kids. They need to bring in a reform school where all the nut kids go with their nut parents, if they were gone I agree they the teachers are being paid well but not with the nuts they have to deal with daily.

So as a question to all of you when a dipshit foreigner can come to Canada take a 2 week course and get behind the wheel of a semi to supply the oil industry and make more money than teachers, nurses, other professionals, what is this gonna do to the pool of people going into these professions?

I'd sure rather have the smartest person teaching my kids, treating my kids at the hospital as apposed to driving a truck. Not meaning to be disrespectful of truckers but this is part of the problem with the oil influence.