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I'm sure the credit companies are brib--- I mean lobbying our senators to keep this stuff out of the classroom.
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life skills training is useful to everyone, and is something that is not being routinely learned in the home as it once was
two other components should be included: how to file taxes situational awareness ... admittedly, this one is a tough nut ... but i dare you to think of a successful person you know who is without an understanding of situational awareness. interestingly, one cannot be a decent baseball player without it
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And part of the problem is that a lot of parents don't get this stuff themselves. There's a huge knowledge gap. And really that's a bigger issue than a class in school can tackle... It's like expecting classes to teach morality. The class is a good idea, but it's not enough in and of itself.
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The closest I came to this was an accounting class in high school. Unfortunately, they royally failed to correlate any of it to "real-world" scenarios. The students were basically miniature "bookkeepers" for imaginary businesses, with imaginary numbers.
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My high school had this for everybody. I remember them teaching everyone how to properly write a check(so that the person you wrote it to can't just add a little zero on the end.) I remember it also covered interest repeatedly in excruciating detail (in probably a vain attempt to make people not rack up credit card debt) and either that or something else covered careers.
It didn't cover starting a business. However my college had different variants on business degrees that dealt with starting different types of businesses. I remember hotel and resturant management was almost its own thing. Last edited by sunnyside; 06-27-2008 at 01:36 AM.
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My, that's thorough. I could have sworn I've read about them in some charter schools and that my own junior high school made a crude and half-hearted attempt at it... but I guess it must all be a delusion.
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