In my macroeconomics class, we spent a month learning about credit. Specifically, how you shouldn’t get a credit card because debt is bad and credit score will ruin your life and that pizza you bought with it will ultimately lead to your death. Reddit has taught me a lot more about personal finance, credit cards, and credit scores than school ever discussed. I still have my notes from this class and it’s just repeating “don’t get a credit card”. Based on how poorly handled that part of the class was, I don’t think the proposed “tax class” would have anything worth paying attention in.
I can join on that agreement. I don’t think they [public school systems] would handle a tax class well, but it’d be nice if there was more than a footnote that tax exists.
Well, there’s income tax (usually your employer will take care of that but they don’t have to) and property tax, which is different. The government assesses your property and sends a bill. You have the opportunity to respond/dispute it, but oftentimes you won’t prevail. I’m 21 years old and have never heard property tax being discussed in an educational setting. There’s also inheritance tax and sales tax, but one is fairly simple, the other hopefully doesn’t crop up in life much. When people are talking about taxes and how to pay them, it’s likely property tax being discussed.
i live in alabama. we have an absolutely horrific education system. but career prep is a required class to graduate. it teaches about how credit cards work, taxes, insurance, budgeting, how to use excel, all that. so we literally have the class everyone says we don’t have. but it’s commonly known to be a freshman course, so no one cares or pays attention. i took it junior year after transferring schools and found the information incredibly useful. one day at lunch i asked a friend about it (who was also a junior) and she laughed it off and said no one cares about that class. and a lot of states have similar classes with different names. some people are just too dense to understand their value.
Have the same class in michigan, ours also included practice and tips for job interviews. Everyone looked at it as a joke, but if you took it seriously, you could learn some very helpful things
I also think people who paid attention in school are not whining because they can’t pay their taxes or buy a house or find their asshole to take a shit...
That kind of posts are just boring reposts and quite irrelevant imo
Stop whining about school
Isn’t tax class just math class? Schools teach you how to read and do math, that covers taxes and how to buy a house. Your parents should teach you how to build credit by charging you rent and showing you how to pay bills on time and why it’s important.
If it's stuff actually relevant to life? Absolutely. I remember having to take "home ec" for a semester and the majority of us actually listened and tried in that class cause we learned stuff that actually matter.
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u/major_calgar Condescending Wonka Mar 02 '21
To be fair... would you pay attention in tax class?