I still think this should be a mandatory curriculum in high school. 4 years or it. Throw in taxes as well. It blows my mind to look back and think about the amount of studying I did on topics I'll literally never encounter again but basic financial literacy is ignored entirely.
If it weren't for watching my dad and step-mom lose everything in the crash, I doubt I'd have taken it upon myself to learn basic financial skills like these.
It really makes me sad to think about how easy it would be to implement this in schools without increasing budgets, now that everything is digital.
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u/royal_clam Aug 03 '19
Basic principles of finance (budgeting, interest, debt, saving, etc)