Comment by PaulDavisThe1st
18 days ago
> Start with why. (Thank you Simon Sinek.) Are there meaningful, ongoing benefits to learning how to make specific decisions with your money?
It's a great approach when the "meaningful, ongoing benefits" start to occur either immediately, or in the near future when you're living a life very, very much like the one you're living today.
The difficulty of doing that within the context of educating 5-18 (+/- 4) years olds is that benefits (and costs) of learning (or not) are far, far down the road, in a life that they can typically not even imagine with any degree of accuracy.
Many high schoolers on the cusp of needing some finanical literacy. They may be starting their first jobs, and making a budget and saving for a rainy day would be good skills. Others are about to borrow for college and financial understanding could help them avoid getting into a lot of debt in order to struggle at a degree that they end up not attaining, or in order to attain a degree that doesn't add up economically. Some may be moving out (voluntarily or not) and need to have an income, find a place an pay rent, pay for food and utilities, etc, with potentially little room for error.